Honour Quotes

515 Honour quotes by 397 unique authors

I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for… — David Gemmell
Papa's in a bad way, Locke. I wanted to see you before you saw him - he has some...things he wishes to discuss with you.… — Scott Lynch
I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion… — Anne Bronte
I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire… — E E Cummings
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the… — Charles Dickens
Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people… — Saint Augustine
Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten… — George Orwell
Randy [Rhoads] was laid to rest at a place called Mountain View Cemetery, where his grandparents were buried. I made a vow there and then… — Ozzy Osbourne
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton
All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her fear… — Michael Ondaatje
The harder the world, the fiercer the honour. — Steven Erikson
He flushed, the colour dark against his pale skin. 'I mean. Tessa Gray, will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?' Jem... — Cassandra Clare
You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess… — James Joyce
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want… — Idries Shah
Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour. — Terry Goodkind
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any… — Ian Mcewan
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for… — George R. R. Martin
You need not fear me, for I not only should think it wrong to marry a man that was deficient in sense or in principle,… — Anne Bronte
Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will — Elizabeth Wein
Do not neglect to bring your revolver, Russell. It may be needed, and it does us no good in your drawer with that disgusting cheese."… — Laurie R. King
Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines… — Richard J. Foster
What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died… — William Shakespeare

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