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Quotes About Honor

Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.
~ Publilius Syrus
Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'
~ Orson Scott Card
Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.
~ Orson Scott Card
But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.
~ Orson Scott Card
Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.
~ Ovid
The most important thing is just to be recognised as a legend, like the people call me. To have that title attached to your name, you've got to be a bad man. It's an honour to have that role.
~ Raekwon
The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
~ Ralph Chaplin
Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.
~ Randy Newman
You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.
~ Richard Steele
The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest
~ Richard Steele
A man can never compete with a woman's father
~ Richelle Mead
It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---
~ Robert Jordan
A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.
~ Robert Jordan
I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute.
~ Robert Jordan
No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.
~ H. L. Mencken
There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.
~ Harper Lee
I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor.
~ Harry Belafonte
Men reverence one another, not yet God.
~ Henry David Thoreau
No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
~ Henry F. Ashurst
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one.
~ Herb Adderley
There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
~ Herman Melville
Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.
~ Herman Melville