Honour Quotes

515 Honour quotes by 397 unique authors

No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot,… — Soren Kierkegaard
With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind… — George Santayana
Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man) — Marian Keyes
For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all… — Thomas Paine
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for… — Patrick O'Brian
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him… — Khalil Gibran
John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this… — Paul Cornell
As I love the name of honour more than I fear death. — William Shakespeare
She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must… — Edith Wharton
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

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