Quotes About Honor

Nothing in his lifeBecame him like the leaving it; he diedAs one that had been studied in his deathTo throw away the dearest thing he ow'd,As 'twere a careless trifle.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,When not to be receives reproach of being.

Let us make an honorable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.

God defend the right!

This day is call'd the feast of Crispian:He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd.And rouse him at the name of Crispian.

Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,But not remember'd in thy epitaph!

Good now, play one sceneOf excellent dissembling, and let it lookLike perfect honor.

For honor travels in a strait so narrowWhere one but goes abreast.

He shall have a noble memory.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

An upright judge, a learned judge!

First Guard:… Charmian, is this well done?Charmian: It is well done, and fitting for a princessDescended of so many royal kings.

He is not great who is not greatly good.

He was my friend, faithful, and just to me, but Brutus says, he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, whose ransoms did the general coffers fill. Did this in Caesar seem ambitious. When the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should me made of sterner stuff, yet Brutus says, he was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Let all the learned say what they can,'Tis ready money makes the man.

There is no room for pride before the Lord, however high and privileged our service of Him may be.

I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.

I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

Aquele que só for atraído pelas honrarias e pela ambição do mando, sem esperança de produzir trabalho útil, é indigno da posição que disputa e incapaz de exercer o poder.

If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.

I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve.

Now we shall see which of us are good knights!