Quotes About Honorable

Da, hes waiting for me to tell the two of you our news first, then he'll join me. He cocked a dark brow at her. And why would he not come to your mother and me first and ask permission to handfast with you, as is the honorable thing to do? She cocked her own brow, mirroring his expression perfectly. Because he's not stupid. Anyone with any sense would be scared of you two. But even scared to death, he wanted to come with me. I wouldn't let him. I knew I needed to talk to you alone first.

You don't need a hat to tax a man with stealing a pig,' said the Hon. Galahad, who was well versed in the manners and rules of good society.

As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person I ever knew who looked upon childhood as a dishonorable vocation one grew out of as quickly as possible.

We will establish a new land where man can assume that every individual man—not the mass of men but individual men—has inalienable right to individual dignity and freedom within a fabric of individual courage and honorable work and mutual responsibility.

A month before our marriage, I knew it would be a well-nigh hopeless union, yet so great is a young man's idea of what is honorable and sporting that I could not renege: and so I determined that the union would be fruitful and from misery would come much happiness and splendid men and women;

The greatest thing," says some one, "a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children." I wonder how it is that we are not all kinder than we are. How much the world needs it! How easily it is done! How instantaneously it acts! How infallibly it is remembered! How superabundantly it pays itself back, -- for there is no debtor in the world so honorable, so superbly honorable, as Love.

His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.

She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

The old and honorable American notion, that a person who works hard should be able to live in freedom and security, with dignity - seems to have taken on a secondary status.

We have a completely unregulated digital landscape. There is almost no oversight. We are placing blind trust in companies like Facebook to do the honorable and decent thing.

I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art

Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison.

her skirt pocket, taking reassurance from its cool steel. She knew she might be overreacting, but in West Texas any strangers met on the range were treated as potential enemies until they proved otherwise by sociable talk and honorable intentions. "Maria Ana, are you armed?' Kate said. The woman shook her head. "No. I never had the need while Rodolfo was around. Kate, are we in danger?

Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, two of the. noblest men ever born on the American continent.

Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.

the kind of man an Anasazi was expected to be. Honorable, modest, self-disciplined, active in the religious life of the clan, one who put the welfare of the clan above his own, skilled in farming and in hunting, trustworthy, dignified.

The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways.

But finding work worth doing and having people in your life worth doing it for…doing the best you can every day…that feels honorable to me.

The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.