Honor

"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."