Quotes About Honor

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He must be the best man in his world, and a good enough man for any world. from Raymond Chandler's, The Simple Act of Murder.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He must be the best man in his world, and a good enough man for any world. From The Simple Art of Murder

I am quite sure he would not spoil a virgin; if he is a man of honor in one thing, he is that in all things.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean.

If he is a man on honor in one thing, he is that in all things.

He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, 'Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'.

Debts of friendship are not debts.

Znam, Kulgane, ali sam u skorije vreme bio toliko rastresen da je bes naprosto proklju?ao u meni kada me je Ralf onako izvre?ao. Pa, to što priznaješ sopstveni udeo dobar je znak da postaješ muškarac. Mnogi de?aci bi pokušali da se pravdaju, prebacuju krivicu na drugog ili pozivaju?i se na razloge ?asti.

Mara hoarsely found her voice. 'You will take no concubine.' Her tone did not indicate a question. And her husband's steely stillness became answer in itself, until he acknowledged the truth. 'My lady, you are all the woman I could wish in this world. So long as you are at my side, I will have no other.

Lady, you have answered well and wisely. Love by itself is the healer, not honor, not need, not duty. For love alone will my god Hantukama answer summons, and lend your warrior the strength to live.

Never offer an oath lightly. For you pledge not only your life and sacred honor, but your people's honor as well. To break an oath is to be without honor, to be without a spirit, and to be apart from the people.

Of any mortal on this world, Tinuva was foremost on Bovai's list of those who must die at his hands. His very existence was an affront to Bovai, a stain on the honour of his family and clan.

But the real test of honor for a man is to live and learn to love himself.

Sergeant Harper.

should you chance to find yourself exchanging pleasantries with a moredhel woman again, she'd as soon cut your heart out as kiss you.

The dead must be remembered, but the living are the monument.

Se mataban, entonces, entre ellos, estos señores, para probarse que eran caballeros argentinos y hombres de honor, con lo cual los caballeros argentinos y los hombres de honor disminuían.

Prophta in su patri honrem nn habet.

Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic diadma.

My lord,' replied El-ahrairah, 'I have come to give you my life. My life for my people.' The Black Rabbit drew his claws along the floor. Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah,' he said. 'There is not a day or a night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here what is is what must be.

Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah, he said. There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here what is is what must be.