Quotes About Honor

be a wrong to me; and much worse, a wrong to the country." The standards

There is now nothing left for me except to try to so live as not to dishonor the memory of those I loved who have gone before me.

Find ways to save face.

To answer those who asked if Lincoln would reconsider, Douglass gave an emphatic no. "Abraham Lincoln will take no step backward," he insisted. "If he has taught us to confide in nothing else, he has taught us to confide in his word.

nobility on earth may be earned by the sword, but nobility of the soul must be sought in stony ways and through hard endeavor. I have to tell you to rejoice that you have been chosen.

There was a space, during which, of the five men and women standing or kneeling about Francis Crawford, only one watched him. Then Lymond said clearly, 'On my honour, I promise it.

I do not know whether this man is a traitor or not, but he is an individualist, and in war the two are the same.

And did you mean to honour your promise?" Sybilla said.

I don't bed with children.' 'Rumour says,' said Catherine d'Albon, 'that you did. Or are the Knights of St John all mistaken?' 'You know too much,' said Francis Crawford slowly. 'Shall I amend it? I don't bed with young girls who are virgins, unless they ask me, and unless I am married to them.

Duty; friendship; compassion. Which moved him to die for you?

The master had gone very red. 'My lord, there can only be one who commands on a ship.' 'That is correct. And you have kindly handed me your authority for a day,' Lymond said. 'Go and sleep. I shall give you your ship back at nightfall.' His jaw jutting, the master turned on Lord Culter. 'I will stand security for him,' said Richard gravely. 'If he chips the shaft of an oar, I shall pay for it.

You will stand there and let me refer to Madame la putaine your mother? You will watch while I call my sergeant in to listen while I brand you bastard?' 'No,' said Lymond.

Daniel Hislop, the son of the bishop?' 'The Bishop's bastard,' said Hislop, with a cold-eyed assumption of coyness. 'Sir. My lord. Jesus.' Lymond's eyes turned to him, open. Then changing position, he seated himself, and placed his hands gently on the table before him. 'Sir will do,' said Lymond calmly, 'unless you receive divine witness to the contrary.

Men would fight well for their pay, but they would die for an aspiration.

The trouble with Austin was that he believed so deeply in the chivalrous virtues that he found it impossible to refer to them.

Welcome with hautbois, clarions and trumpets, noble lady. Welcome to the company of those who can be hurt.

I will give you to Catherine. I will not give you to a hole in the ground.

So who would do all this?' 'I should,' Richard said. 'Even to sleeping in your own chamber.' 'That I baulk at,' Lymond said. 'The rest you can have. One cock per pen is enough.

I wonder if there exists any other man, even at this Court, who has to be restrained day and night to preserve a girl's honour?

His lawté maid him presoner to be, And for the commoun proffet of the land He chesit him as presoner to stand. NICHOLAS DE FLEURY, immured with his charge on the English border at Upsettlington, had by this time no heavenly credit left, unless his state of mind was proof against angels.

None of that, however, concerned Buccleuch who was little troubled, if ever, with matters of right and wrong.

Why it should feel worse to speak ill of the dead than the living I can't imagine.

You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!

didn't deserve this sort of treatment; he was a dignified old man.