Honour Quotes

515 Honour quotes by 397 unique authors

I would have things as they were in all the days of my life . . . and in the days of my longfathers before… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They… — Michael Ondaatje
Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put… — Aristotle
If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might… — Charles Spurgeon
I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain. — Seth Grahame-Smith
If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom,… — Glen Cook
Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold… — Iris Murdoch
In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty. — William Shakespeare
Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at… — J.R.R. Tolkien
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour,… — William Shakespeare
Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart? — Jane Austen
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour. — Miyamoto Musashi
If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social… — Dorothy L. Sayers
True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage… — Jonathan Edwards
If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved — Friedrich Nietzsche
And if I get a little chemically imbalanced in the head, like we all know I tend to get sometimes, and I don't want my… — Melina Marchetta
Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around him till he occupies… — Charles Spurgeon
I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would… — Jane Austen
A cold realisation washed over me. From now on, my master would not always be there to protect and counsel me. 'This is big. Too… — Alison Goodman
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned. — David Gemmell

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