Quotes About Honor

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

Why you don't cut whiskers? Is Rrawshian saying: 'The beard is honor, but whiskers even a cat has!' " "Oh, mother," Nancy-Anastasia would shrug helplessly.

This book is dedicated to all librarians everywhere—for they are the true keepers of the secret flame and not to be trifled with.

A hedge knight is the truest kind of knight, Dunk. Other knights serve the lords who keep them, or from whom they hold their lands, but we serve where we will, for men whose causes we believe in. Every knight swears to protect the weak and innocent, but we keep the vow the best, I think.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

He who partakes the honor, should participate in the labor.

The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand."… I loved the man [Shakespeare] and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.

Be not ashamed of thy virtues honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

In wartime, the truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

The relationship between cricket (that most English of sports) and spying (at which the British have always excelled) is deep rooted and unique. Something about the game attracts the sort of mind also drawn to the secret worlds of intelligence and counterintelligence—a complex test of brain and brawn, a game of honor interwoven with trickery, played with ruthless good manners and dependent on minute gradations of physics and psychology, with tea breaks.

I was delighted. I both counted him as a friend and saw him as a dedicated and highly qualified public servant.

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconstant, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

Zaragoza se rendirá? La muerte al que esto diga. Zaragoza no se rinde. La reducirán a polvo: de sus históricas casas no quedará ladrillo sobre ladrillo; caerán sus cien templos; su suelo abriráse vomitando llamas; y lanzados al aire los cimientos, caerán las tejas al fondo de los pozos; pero entre los escombros y entre los muertos habrá siempre una lengua viva para decir que Zaragoza no se rinde.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

Three can keep a secret if two are dead.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.

I am apprehensive, therefore - perhaps too apprehensive - that the Government of these States may in futures times end in a monarchy. But this catastrophe, I think, may be long delayed, if in our proposed system we do not sow the seeds of contention, faction, and tumult, by making our posts of honor places of profit.