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Quotes About Honor

Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
~ Franz Grillparzer
A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Gaylord (Perry) is a very honorable man. He only calls for the spitter when he needs it.
~ Gabe Paul
The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!
~ Gene Mauch
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
~ George Chapman
To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.
~ George Eliot
Amongst good men two men suffice.
~ George Herbert
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
~ George Herbert
A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.
~ George R. R. Martin
Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.
~ George R. R. Martin
...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.
~ George R. R. Martin
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." - Eddard Stark
~ George R. R. Martin
Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.
~ George R. R. Martin
...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.
~ George R. R. Martin
I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding." "To save your reputation?" Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. "Someone has to make a respectable man of me.
~ Lisa Kleypas
This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.
~ Lord Byron
The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.
~ Lord Chesterfield
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do
~ Louis L'Amour
If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.
~ Mahatma Gandhi