Quotes About Honor

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Aquellos que educan bien a los niños deberían ser más honorados que los que los producen; los primeros solo les dan la vida, los segundos el arte de vivir bien (Aristóteles)

Men may be bad in many ways, But good in one alone.

You have to respect yourself before you can command a guy's respect.

God is not mocked!

In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped.

The confrontation lasted about five minutes; then the display died out as quickly as it had begun, and everyone drank his fill of the muddy water. Honor had been satisfied; each group had staked its claim to its own territory.

We can't do these things in the force, Mr. Holmes," said he. "No wonder you get results that are beyond us. But some of these days you'll go too far, and you'll find yourself and your friend in trouble." "For England, home and beauty—eh, Watson? Martyrs on the altar of our country.

No man ever crossed me and was the better for it. So many have said so, and yet here I am, said Holmes, smiling.

He slipped an emerald snake ring from his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more highly," said Holmes.

You trusted me and that I would never betray. Trust, much like a woman's love and affection, and brotherly friendship, is a sacred thing, and should never be lightly given nor abused nor taken for granted.

And for the glorious honor of being bitched at constantly and the esteemed title of Claims Investigator, he'd given up five years of his life as he went to college, created a debt his great-grandkids would curse him over, and got the holy honor of MBA. More Bullshit Allowed. (Zeke)

There are those, too, who befriend the weak because they feel themselves unworthy of the strong. Because they cannot bring themselves to honour abilities greater than their own.

My father had a good reputation. Not that anyone ever thought of it when he was alive.

There was a code at Attica. But not Maryville. The women couldn't trust one another. No loyalty. Loyalty was king at Attica. There was a sense of honor that just did not exist among females. ("They ten times more likely to snitch.") And in their own way men, or at least the majority, he said, were more willing to abide by the rules.

El honor de una mujer era el honor de todos los hombres que tenían el derecho y el deber de velar por ella.

And I don't believe any maiden of good family and with an honorable and Christian upbringing would part so easily with her honor, or her life. No, this is the kind of thing people write ballads about. I think when a man or a maiden is tempted to do something like that, they make up a ballad about it, which helps them, but they refrain from actually doing it.

So now you know, Kristin, that I have compromised much, both my land and my honor. You would certainly be much better served if you stayed with Simon Andressøn." Kristin put her arms around his neck. "We will stand by what we swore to each other last night, Erlend—if you feel as I do.

The Roman people paid great attention to the rightness of their wars in the building of the empire. 'When the inception of war seems just,' ran the logic, 'it makes victory greater and ill success less perilous, while if it is thought to be dishonourable and wrong, it has the opposite effect'.

said. 'To make someone lose face is unforgivable.' The

Arapski geograf El Bekri, govore?i o Slovenima, kaže: Ako se oženi i vidi da je njegova žena nevina, on joj kaže: Da si nešto vredela, muškarci bi te voleli i našao bi se jedan koji bi ti oduzeo nevinost. Zatim je otera i odri?e je se.

I was clean straight uncompromising. No cheating: I've had that in my bones since I was a child.

He wanted to honor Shad for the sweaty shirt, the honest toil, and all the rugged virtues, but even as a Liberal American Humanitarian, Doremus found it hard always to keep up the Longfellow's-Village-Blacksmith-cum-Marx attitude consistently and not sometimes backslide into a belief that there must be some crooks and swine among the toilers as, notoriously, there were so shockingly many among persons with more than $3500 a year.

In America the Struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word Fascism and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty. For they were thieves not only of wages but of honor.

7 per cent of all the families in the country earned $500 a year or less—remember, those weren't the unemployed, on relief; those were the guys that had the honor of still doing honest labor.