Quotes About Honor

Of all the forms of injustice, that is the most egregious which makes the circumstances of sex a reason for excluding one half of mankind from all those paths which lead to usefulness and honor

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Since those whose duty it was to hold the sword of France have let it fall, I have picked up its broken point.

If I live, I will fight, wherever I must, as long as I must, until the enemy is defeated and the national stain washed clean.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.

No statue for the vanquished. (Pas de statue Pour les vaincus)

The champions of liberty have the medal for any necklace.

The champions of liberty have the medal for any necklace. (Les champions de la liberte - Ont la medaille pour tout collier)

The medals of the dead heroes are the coins for the future. (Les médailles des héros morts - Sont les pièces pour l'avenir.)

The memory of the dead is indeed a good remorse.

The memory of the dead is indeed a good remorse. (Le souvenir des morts - Est bien un bon remords)

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it

Full-Private Number One in the Awkward Squad of the rank and file of life was Sloppy, and yet had his glimmering notions of standing true to the Colours.

Let no man turn aside, even so slightly, from the broad path of honor, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means. Those that cannot, are bad; and may be counted so at once, and left alone.

Mr. Carton," she answered, after an agitated pause, "the secret is yours, not mine, and I promise to respect it.

Time shall show us. The post of honour and the post of shame, the general's station and the drummer's, a peer's statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman's hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitre and the workhouse, the woolsack and the gallows, the throne and the guillotine - the travellers to all are on the great high road; but it has wonderful divergences, and only Time shall show us whither each traveller is bound.

I ain't took so many year to make a gentleman, not without knowing what's due to him.