Honour Quotes

everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstand...

The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death...

Women shouldn't be in combat," said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. "Neither should men, in my opinion.

Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is m...

Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till pub...

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not ...

The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons.

Now I want you to remember something because I don't think we shall meet again very soon. It is this...

The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!

Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction a...

A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient unprofitable ...

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours but in deserving them.

Fame is something which must be won honour is something which must not be lost.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to li...

No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.

I can't go into a long explanation before company; but I couldn't help it, upon my honour."Upon your...

There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, bu...

A nation lives forever through its concepts, honour, and culture. It is for these reasons that the r...

Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these thing...

It seems to me, that you people spend a great deal of time talking about honour, but strip away the ...

I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But thes...

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we ...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the gu...

I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is i...

Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the stri...

I was thinking about honour. It's a thing that changes doesn't it? I mean, a hundred and fifty years...

Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora--bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no...

We are as the dead," Sha said. "Our purpose is to dedicate our lives to the service of our lord. And...

If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of he...