Quotes About Honor

He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.

Some debts should never be tallied, he says. "I myself, I know what is owed me, but by God I know what I owe.

That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.

You know I'm not a man with whom you can have inconsequential conversations. I cannot split myself into two, one your friend and the other the king's servant.

He understands honor but does not boast of his own. . . He has studied the world without despising it. He understands the world without rejecting it. He has no illusions but he has hopes. He does not sleepwalk through his life. His eyes are open, and his ears for sounds others miss.

Vows to the living may be set aside, with their permission. But the dead do not negotiate.

Vere dignum et justum est, aequum et salutare.

que el rey les otorgará la merced de muerte por el hacha, que no aumentará su deshonra; aunque entre los jurados se murmura que a Smeaton se le ahorcará porque, al ser hombre de bajo nacimiento, no hay ningún honor que proteger.

One time I came to blows with Shimada. We were talking about Akatsu's defection, and Shimada took a sympathetic view toward Akatsu. I, for my part, had no sympathy at all for a soldier who had deserted before my very eyes. Before very long a fistfight started, and we rolled down the hill pounding each other.

Together, Kozuka and I vowed that somehow we would avenge Shimada's death.

If I could kill one more enemy with the last bullet, so much the better. That, rather than commit suicide, seemed to me to be what a soldier ought to do.

If I get killed," I thought, "I'll be enshrined as a god at Yasukuni Shrine, and people will worship me. That isn't so bad.

The only way I could see now to discharge my duty to those who had died so tragically was to carry out this desperate night attack on the enemy. I would lead the way into the enemy camp and slaughter as many Americans as I could.

Sí, ambicioso... Si lo llamo ambicioso, es sobre todo en honor a nuestra estrecha amistad, de otro modo se expresaría uno más correctamente diciendo que pega fuerte con los codos. La ambición es una cosa tan poco ordinaria... Nos hemos acostumbrado a decir que alguien es ambicioso cuando aspira a ser consejero de estado.

Seelie and Unseelie, Wild Folk and Shy Folk, I am glad to have you march under my banner, glad of your loyalty, grateful for your honor." His gaze goes to me. "To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen's hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives.

I am no murderer," says Cardan, surprising me. I would not have thought that was something to be proud of.

Our promises don't matter. No one expects us to have any honor. Everyone knows we lie.

I wanted so badly to believe that being in Dain's service was an honor, that he was someone worth following. That's what comes of hungering for something: You forget to check if it's rotten before you gobble it down.

lt's an honor and a delight to meet you and a tragedy you're here

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Try to think of it as the end scene in Star Wars where everyone cheers and Princess Leia puts medals on Han and Luke." Call

Heir to Elfhame," I say. "Get on your knees.

Across the room, Cardan raises a goblet. 'Be welcome in the Isle of Insmire,' he says. 'Seelie and Unseelie, Wild Folk and Shy Folk, I am glad to have you march under my banner, glad of your loyalty, grateful for your honor.' His gaze goes to me. 'To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen's hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives.

Pride is for knights, I remind myself, not for spies.