Quotes About Honor

Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.

An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world.

I didn't know I was a sex symbol in the U.K., but if I am, then I'm flattered.

To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag.

I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.

Of course, being the synagogue president, for me it was a great blessing.

It's a huge privilege to be named England Twenty20 captain and form part of a leadership team that I've no doubt will work well together with a great deal of synergy.

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.

the value of the distinction which they obtain. Resolved, that the Faculty will refuse to confer a

I wouldn't use physical violence even if I could, because one of my romantic ideas is that physical violence is beneath the dignity of a man, and that whatever you get by physical aggression costs more than it is worth.

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

The Society of Saint George," she said. "A devotional society of the men of this town. It is an honour to be invited to join.

medal. A religious medal to some kind of saint.

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

Est Sularis Oth Mithas' in the old tongue. 'My Honor is My Life.' 

We say—say 'Est Sularis Oth Mithas' in the old tongue. 'My Honor is My Life.

Thrall is no assassin skulking in the fog nor is he an honorless warrior!

We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for regret. We took our risk with you; you died and we live. We take your noble gift, salute for the last time those lines of pitiable crosses, those solitary mounds, those unknown graves, and turn to live our lives out as we may.

These values do not come cheap. These values must be paid for.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Two poets, Nikolai Gumilyov and Maximilian Voloshin, fought a duel over a non-existent woman.

So saved are all those who enable themselves to believe, and therefore was the military mind called a juvenile mind. It was constant; it observed a code of honor in a world where any element of devotion to a rationale summoned scorn but the world itself knew itself was sick.

Anger is a serious issue for many fathers because a child's disobedience is seen as an affront to the father's authority and honor. But sinful displays of anger only undermine a father's authority, tempting a child to hold the father in disdain and contempt.