Honor Quotes

2471 Honor quotes by 1608 unique authors

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them… — Peter S. Beagle
Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far… — Orson Scott Card
Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him. — Libba Bray
He said to tell you to remember your heart in all things, that it is where your honor and your destiny will be found. Does… — Libba Bray
War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood… — Libba Bray
Are you going to shoot me?' Vengeous sneered. 'I wouldn't be surprised. What would a thing like you know about honor? Only a heathen would… — Derek Landy
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person,… — Antonio Tabucchi
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so… — John Gardner
Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you… — Anne Lamott
What did it mean to be called “lord”? I’ll assume you’ve never had the honor, since I doubt any of you happen to be British… — Brandon Sanderson
Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland — Jacqueline Carey
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… — William Styron
What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold. — Victor Hugo
If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to… — Brigham Young
It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given. — Sheri Holman
Looking up in the sky, I saw the stars were brighter now. They made a pattern I had never noticed before- a gleaming constellation that… — Rick Riordan
Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary,… — Mercedes Lackey
What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or… — George R. R. Martin
Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was… — Lisa Scottoline
I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack… — Tamora Pierce
I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these… — Don DeLillo
Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of — William Shakespeare
Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain. — Sherwood Smith
What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does. — Gene Wolfe
Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor. — Noah Webster

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