Honor

"Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour."

"Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station."

"“Honor” sighs softly on the wind, teasing my ears, and I want to scream at the absolute idiocy of it. I did the wrong thing for the right reasons and I'm supposed to be happy with that?"

"Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw."

"What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die!"

"Honour is like a widow, won With brisk attempt and putting on."

"Now, while the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new."

"If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain, He that is beaten may be said To lie in Honour's truckle-bed."

"As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honour's lodged, As wise philosophers have judged, Because a kick in that place more Hurts Honour than deep wounds before."

"True honour is an attachment to honest and beneficent principles, and a good reputation; and prompts a man to do good to others, and indeed to all men, at his own cost, pains, or peril. False honour is a pretence to this character, but does things that destroy it: And the abuse of honour is called honour, by those who from that good word borrow credit to act basely, rashly, or foolishly."

"To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's.""

"You are not running for reelection here. Be tough when necessary, impartial always. Guard your honor."

"Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters."

"Semper in fide quid senseris, non quid dixeris, cogitandum."

"I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man."

"We have no other choice. Our submission would serve no end; if Germany is victorious, Belgium, whatever her attitude, will be annexed to the Reich. If die we must, better death with honour."

"The honor of a nation is an important thing. It is said in the Scriptures, “What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” It may be said, also, What doth it profit a nation if it gain the whole world, but lose its honor?"

"Honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."

"Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is himself an honour to his titles."

"Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation: Title and profit I resign: The post of honor shall be mine."

"Who in the moment of victory remains inaccessible to vanity and hate, who in the midst of popular enthusiasm lives in humility and prayer, who in the universal crush of ambition covets neither profit nor honours."

"Of all the resources of government, none are so wastefully employed as its powers of conferring honour. This is true of nearly all countries. In Great Britain the waste is not occasioned by profusion, but by caprice, uncertainty, irrelevance. The king (it was in George III.'s time) is asked to give a right of going through the park to some gentleman. "No, no," replies the king, "I cannot do that; but you may make him an Irish baron." The above is not an unfavourable specimen of the way in which honours have been granted."

"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."

"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

"πῶς δύνασθε ὑμεῖς πιστεῦσαι, δόξαν παρὰ ἀλλήλων λαμβάνοντες, καὶ τὴν δόξαν τὴν παρὰ τοῦ μόνου Θεοῦ οὐ ζητεῖτε;"

"Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both. For a wounded man shall say to his assailant, "If I live, I will kill you. If I die, you are forgiven." Such is the rule of honor."

"Before gray hair you should rise up, and you must show honor to an older man, and you must be in fear of your God. I am Jehovah."

""Oh Lord! How many of these you surely have spilt over the world, who suffer for the black so-called honour what they would not suffer for you!" (Lázaro) [...] "I make you know that I am, as you see, a squire; but, by God!, if Ï meet the count on the street and he does not fully take off his hat before me, next time I will know to enter a house, simulating to have some business there, or cross to another street, if there is one, before he reaches me, so that I will not take off mine. That a hidalgo does not owe anything to anybody but God and the king, nor it is proper, being a good man, to lose a comma of care in regarding himself highly." (The Squire)"

"We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."

"I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more."

"All honour comes from God, said Homer of old; he spoke exactly like St Paul, without having plagiarized him. One thing certain is that man cannot impart that indefinable characteristic that is called dignity."

""Duty, Honor, Country" — those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn."

"Chose disgrace where obedience did not bring honour"

"… during the time that the aristocracy was dominant, the concepts honour, loyalty, etc. were dominant, during the dominance of the bourgeoisie the concepts freedom, equality, etc."

"In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them."

"I will be forced to sink [the US ships], because even if I have one ship left I will proceed with the bombardment. Spain, the Queen and I prefer honour without ships than ships without honour."

"Honor is what a man owns...."

"Yea, much more those that seem to be the more feeble members of the body, are more necessary. And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour; and those that are our uncomely parts, have more abundant comeliness. But our comely parts have no need [...]"

"Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor, and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?"

"Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies."

"To die with honour, when one can no longer live with honour."

"A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole."

"It is never easy to give honor where great honor is due."

"Nec multis verbis nec circumitu longo, quod sit summum bonum, colliges1; digito, ut ita dicam, demonstrandum est nec in multa spargendum. Quid enim ad rem pertinet in particulas illud diducere, cum possis dicere: summum bonum est, quod honestum est? Et quod magis admireris: unum bonum est, quod honestum est, cetera falsa et bona sunt. Hoc si persuaseris tibi et virtutem adamaveris, amare enim parum est, quicquid illa contigerit, id tibi, qualecumque aliis videbitur, faustum felixque erit. Et torqueri, si modo iacueris ipso torquente securior, et aegrotare, si non male dixeris fortunae, si non cesseris morbo, omnia denique, quae ceteris videntur mala, et mansuescent et in bonum abibunt, si super illa eminueris."

"See that you come Not to woo honour, but to wed it."

"Honours thrive, When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers."

"A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour."

"If I lose mine honour, I lose myself; better I were not yours Than yours so branchless."

"For he's honourable And doubling that, most holy."

"Methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon."

"And pluck up drowned honour by the locks."

"Well, 'tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off, when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no: Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is that word honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. Is it insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore, I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon; and so ends my catechism."

"It yearns me not, if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But, if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive."

"For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men."

"Thou art a fellow of a good respect; Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it."

"Let none presume To wear an undeserv'd dignity. O, that estates, degrees and offices Were not deriv'd corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchas'd by the merit of the wearer!"

"Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done: Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die."

"And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit."

"I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, Than you should such dishonour undergo."

"For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast."

"Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth."

"Honours ought to come from merit, and from merit alone."

"I tell you what. Let’s drink to the one thing that never changes, to the one permanent part of a man’s life...honor, indeed. Burglar proof, weather proof, fool proof, one hundred-proof! Honor. Everything else is subject to the... powers that be. To the caprices of often inferior men. But your honor is your own, inviolate. So then- to honor."

"A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion."

"Honor is only a label they use for what they want you to do. Chernon. They want you to stay, so they call staying honorable."

"Duty, Honor, Country"

"If you do not protect your own honor, the crows will peck at your flesh."

"… Honour … remains awake in us like a last lamp in a temple that has been laid to waste."