Quotes About Duty

Busy day and I'm not getting any younger. And Irene Cramer's not getting any older. And somebody has to answer for that.

United States Code, title 10, § 311(a).

Responsibility was our cruel mooring....

Morality deals with what we might like to do, but politics deals with what we must do. There's no connection between them at all.

That's a strange hobby for a Church Knight. God hired me as a fighting man, Sparhawk, not as a monk. I fight whenever He tells me to, but the rest of my time is my own.

It's well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends to afflict the congenitally nice.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.

For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away

My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, but seeming so, for my peculiar end: for when my outward action doth demonstrate the native act and figure of my heart in compliment extern, 'tis not long after but I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.

I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.

There is Throats to be cut, and Works to be done.

Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak when power to flattery bows?

Put plainly, there is a natural moral law, existing in reality, i.e., not invented by man, which transcends and trumps our desires. Something is right or wrong, whether we like it or not.

We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers.

Master Custard, you must rise and be hanged

If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it.