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Quotes About Honor

Anyone with honor and integrity was worn down and spit out by the political machine of party politics.
~ Vince Flynn
Jack, what do you think?
~ Vince Flynn
The signs of the old flame, I know them well. I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades, the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night, before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.
~ Virgil
We have hearts valiant in war, we have spirit, and a manhood which has proved itself by deed.
~ Virgil
Hic pietatis honos?
~ Virgil
Well, the day has come when a woman's weapons prove your daydreams wrong! Still, you carry no mean fame to your fathers' shades— just tell them this: You died by Camilla's spear!
~ Virgil
namaste - it means, roughly translated, I honor the Deity within you. that is precisely what we do when we open our hearts to another; we honor the fact that he or she, like us, is a child or the same loving Father, worthy of all respect and careful attention.
~ Virginia H. Pearce
Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.
~ Virginia Woolf
In normal circumstances a lovely young woman alone would have thought of nothing else; the whole edifice of female government is based on that foundation stone; chastity is their jewel, their centrepiece, which they run mad to protect, and die when ravished of.
~ Virginia Woolf
the chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of man)
~ Virginia Woolf
A poet's purified truth can cause no pain, no offense. True art is above false honor.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Q: What is the best thing men do? A: To be kind, to be proud, to be fearless.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Once transmuted by you into poetry, the stuff will be true, and the people will come alive. A poet's purified truth can cause no pain, no offense. True art is above false honor.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
as if it were a point of honor—which, indeed, a point of art often is.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Suddenly the sun was up. It sparkled like a dewy foam across the field of weeds. Master Sun! Honor and respect, Master Sun! We black men greet you with a swirl of hoes snatching bright sparks of fire from the sky.
~ Langston Hughes
I'm not going to leave you here to bleed my friend dry." "If that had been my intent, they'd already be dead on the floor.
~ Lara Adrian
I shouldn't be your first. Then again, I don't think I've got honor enough to stand aside and let you give yourself to anyone else. Not now." "I want this," she whispered resolutely. "I want you.
~ Lara Adrian
I have to do something purposeful with this new life – for myself as much as I want to show my people that I'm not the awful person they believe me to be. I need to prove that I have honor, that I'm worth something." "You don't have to prove a damn thing to anyone, Sia. You are all of those things already.
~ Lara Adrian
You honor us well, warrior." - Lucan
~ Lara Adrian
I wish I was the kind of male who could walk away from you. I wish like hell I had more honor, because despite the mark that should be enough to make me keep my distance – despite the fact that you're withholding information that might get you killed on my watch - the only thing I can't seem to do where you're concerned is walk the fuck away.
~ Lara Adrian
Touch my soul, Vex." Stopping in front of her, he took one of her hands and pressed it over his heart. "On my honor, it's you I want. Only you.
~ Larissa Ione
One of the reasons wars go on is because of the price both sides have paid in blood. After a while, even if the original reason no longer matters, you keep on fighting because you don't want all those deaths to be in vain.
~ Larry Bond
A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae
~ Larry McMurtry
DON'T MISS THIS. Peter and his prayer-meeting friends seem to have had absolutely no expectation that God would really answer their prayers. Their doubts were so great that when God did answer, they didn't believe it. They had exactly the kind of faith that many of us have been told God won't honor. But he did.
~ Larry Osborne