Quotes About Honor

Fighting fair! Whoever heard of anything so daft? Fight fair and you lose.

Bernard Cornwell

The church, we're to meet in the church. Do try to wipe that blood off your mail, Uhtred. We're an embassy!

My sword, I told him, says I tell the truth, and that you are a stinking bag of wind, a liar from hell, a cheat and a perjurer who deserves death. Up to our arses again, Leofric said.

name's sake.' The men called out amen and some

had given an oath and honor binds us to paths we might not choose.

our oaths.' He advanced down the path

A man without honor has no reputation

Bernard Cornwell

The square would end with a huddle of bloodied men around the colors and the enemy would fall on them and for a few moments it would be steel against steel, and the sergeant reckoned he would give the flag to a wounded man and do what harm he could with the heavy, long-shafted axe. It was a pity to die, but he was a soldier, and no one had yet devised a way a man could live for ever, not even those clever bastards in Edinburgh.

You told these bastards they had till New Year's Day?' 'Yes, sir.' 'Then break your word, Major. Go and kill them at Christmas instead.' 'Yes, sir.

I knew it was stupid, knew I would probably die if I went again, but we were warriors and warriors will not be beaten. It is reputation. It is pride. It is the madness of battle. I began beating Serpent-Breath against my half-broken shield, and other men took up the rhythm, and the Danes, so close, were inviting us to come and be killed, and I shouted that we were coming.

He doesn't want to face Englishmen,' the Lord of Douglas said, and he knew he was right. Ever since the Scottish knights

even be here,' Douglas snarled. The Scottish knights had been summoned by

So much is expected of a king. He must be brave i battle, wise i council, just in judgement.

I am never certain that deserters are to be trusted, Gudin said mildly. He was accompanied by a burly French sergeant who kept giving the tigers nervous glances. If a man can betray one flag, Gudin observed, why not another?

I had broken three Saxon shield-walls and buried Hywelbane to her hilt in my country's enemies before I had been elected to Mithras's service, but all Lancelot had ever done was boast and posture.

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

It is as if people refused to leave their dead alone, forced them back into the light, made them keep their composure even in death.

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.

Sacrifice is a necessary response to evil. You can only shame evil by showing them honor.

Humility is the earmark of God's genuine servant.

We are convinced that we have a clear conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves honorably in everything. Hebrews 13:18

There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother. Proverbs 30:11