Quotes About Honor

I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.

This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

Had I been wrong, this would still have been the honorable thing to do. I am very glad, however, to find out that I was right.

Both were men who knew the frontier code and each other. At a time of action speech, beyond the curtest of monosyllables, was surplusage.

People who live according to the pure code of honor are not governed by the profit motive; they are governed by the thymotic urge, the quest for recognition. They seek the sort of glory that can be won only by showing strength in confrontation with death.

Eddie is a man in all that noun means.

For many kids, a good teacher may be the most palpable form of honor they will ever experience.

The rest of the world should know who really defeated the Germans.

there was no shame in crying when something or someone was worth crying over.

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

But by swearing fealty ... you gave me everything." "I saw you need it." My scorn dripped. "This afternoon, by my shame?" "No, my lord. Tonight, by your fear." He sighed. "Now, perhaps, you can allow yourself a friend.

What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave...

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.

Those who work bullshit jobs are often surrounded by honor and prestige; they are respected as professionals, well paid, and treated as high achievers

Just as markets, when allowed to drift entirely free from their violent origins, invariably begin to grow into something different, into networks of honor, trust, and mutual connectedness, so does the maintenance of systems of coercion constantly do the opposite: turn the products of human cooperation, creativity, devotion, love, and trust back into numbers once again. In doing so, they make it possible to imagine a world that is nothing more than a series of cold-blooded calculations.

As Pierre Bourdieu was later to point out in describing a similar economy of trust in contemporary Algeria: it's quite possible to turn honor into money, almost impossible to convert money into honor.

What this also meant was that honor and credit became, effectively, the same thing: at least for a poor man, one's creditworthiness was precisely one's command over one's household, and (the flip side, as it were) relations of domestic authority, relations that in principle involved a responsibility for care and protection, became property rights that could indeed be bought and sold.

Honor is Surplus Dignity: Honor, at its simplest, is that excess dignity that must be defended with the knife or sword. Wherever honor is at issue, it comes with a sense that dignity can be lost, and therefore must be constantly defended.

Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce

Honor" is different from '"dignity." Honor is an obsession with status, with a sense that status can be lost, and therefore any sign of disrespect must be treated as a challenge that must be suppressed.

A warrior's honor is his willingness to play a game on which he stakes everything. His grandeur is directly proportional to how far he can fall.