Quotes About Honor

Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour and discretion, whom I may trust with

Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just.

Is this how you act toward your honored guest? You must take him out onto the street and walk him around a bit to wake him up. The cold will do him good. He's lying in the snow. Isn't that cold enough?

You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away.

I can. And there's your first marvel, that I can. You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs. (Elizabeth, in a burst of terror, rushes to him and weeps against his hand.) Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them. Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it!

Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him!

We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him! That's the principle ; the only one we live by.

That's only a little thing . . . but . . . that's the kind of guys I had. They didn't die; they killed themselves for each other. I mean that exactly; a little more selfish and they'd've been here today. And I got an idea—watching them go down. Everything was being destroyed, see, but it seemed to me that one new thing was made. A kind of . . . responsibility. Man for man.

Porque ahí está mi nombre! ¡Porque no tendré otro mientras viva! ¡Porque he mentido y he firmado mentiras! ¡Porque no merezco besar el polvo que pisan los pies de los que van a ser ahorcados! ¿Cómo voy a vivir sin mi nombre? ¡Le he entregado el alma, déjeme al menos mi nombre!

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Whoever attaches great importance to the opinions of people pays them too much honour.

Demopheles: Every man's faith is sacred to him, therefore it should be sacred to you too. Philalethes: I deny your conclusion! I can't see why, because other people are simple-minded, I should respect a pack of lies.

Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

a ingenuidade se mantém como a indumentária de honra do gênio, assim como a nudez é a da beleza.

officers in the army, (except those in the highest positions), are paid most inadequately for the services they perform; and the deficiency is made up by honor, which is represented by titles and orders, and, in general, by the system of rank and distinction.

To the honor of Spinoza I must mention that his more accurate understanding explained all general concepts as having to the contrary arisen from an obfuscation of that of which one is perceptually cognizant

Die Ehre ist nicht die Meinung von besonderen, diesem Subjekt allein zukommenden Eigenschaften, sondern nur von den der Regel nach vorauszusetzenden, als welche auch ihm nicht abgehen sollen. Sie besagt daher nur, daß dies Subjekt keine Ausnahme mache, während der Ruhm besagt, daß es eine mache. Ruhm muß daher erst erworben werden, die Ehre hingegen braucht bloß nicht verloren zu gehen.

Ehrwürdig ist die Wahrheit; nicht was ihr entgegensteht.

Spanish proverb: honor and money are not to be found in the same purse.

In certi paesi alcuni soldati muoiono due volte.

In some countries, some soldiers die twice

People readily demonstrate a willingness to sacrifice their safety and survival for the sake of something beyond themselves, such as family, country, or justice.

Whereas today people often understate their age to census takers, studies of past censuses have revealed that they used to overstate it. The dignity of old age was something to which everyone aspired.

For having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognizing its power, in honor and self-respect we can no require no less ourselves