Quotes About Honor

Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skills . . . we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

Pride. Never pretend you are not a knight of attempt to diminish yourself because you deem it will make others more comfortable. We show others the most respect by offering the best of ourselves.

When somebody, no matter who, gives everything, it makes people feel ashamed for him.

Mas a culpa por sobrevivermos àqueles que amamos, é justo que a carreguemos, pensava ela. Sobreviver-lhes é uma desconsideração que lhes fazemos.

Even if you have kept silent for the sake of the dead, you cannot rest in your silence, as the dead rest.

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Siate maledetti tutti voi che cercate l'onore attraverso la demagogia. Possiate restarmi ignoti, voi che non esitate a danneggiare i vostri amici pur di dire qualcosa che risulti gradita alla folla.

Do right. Fear Nothing.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to conviction of honor and good sense.

Never give in; never give in—never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force: never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

I guess you don't always have to be a nice guy to be a good man.

Then worms shall tryThat long preserved virginity,And your quaint honor turn to dust,And into ashes all my lust.The grave's a fine and private place,But none, I think, do there embrace.

we may show mercy Ã¢â'¬â€œ we shall ask for none.

His men knew they could trust him not to be officious over such an unfortunate (though by no means isolated) friendly-fire incident, and to tell the dead Guardsman's family that he had died heroically. Sometimes in war, as he was to say later, the truth has to be defended by a bodyguard of lies.

He privately remarked that Boothby 'should join a bomb disposal squad as the best way of rehabilitating himself in the eyes of his fellow men. After all, the bombs might not go off.'133 It sounded cruel, but that is much what he himself had done in 1915, when the six-week average life-expectancy for new officers on the Western Front was not dissimilar to that of bomb-disposal squads in the Second World War.

Churchill refused the King's third offer of the Order of the Garter, supposedly saying afterwards, 'Why should I accept the Order of the Garter from His Majesty when the people have just given me the order of the boot?

They didn't teach me how to tend wounds,' she said bitterly. 'They taught me how to kill, telling me that's how I could save people. It was one big lie, Little Horse. They deceived me.

Draw me not without reason; sheath me not without honour".

No me desenvaines sin causa, no me envaines sin honor

Mude o nome da taberna para A Espada do Bruxo, para que nas noites de inverno aqui sejam contadas histórias sobre tesouros e monstros, sobre uma guerra sangrenta, sobre batalhas ferozes, sobre a morte. Sobre um grande amor e uma amizade inabalável. Sobre a coragem e a honra.

Those who follow a code are often respected and held in high esteem

As on all Viroleda blades, the traditional inscription: 'Draw me not without reason; sheath me not without honour.

En mor är ändå en mor, hon är helig.