238 quotes found
“Honor doesn’t revise according to company just as integrity doesn’t diminish due to circumstance.”
“He was suddenly aware of the pain rampaging through him. “Where’s Swindler?”“Here.” He crouched beside Sterling. “We got the b”
“The problem with martyrs is that they’re all dead. What do they have to do with us that are simple enough to still be alive? Should we just give up and want to die because death is better than dish...”
“When honor dies—when trust is a useless thing—what use is life?”
“Fed by neither Heaven nor by Earth he was going forward . . . He hadn't a God or a lover--the two usual incentives to virtue. But on he struggled with his back to ease, because dignity demanded it....”
“You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.”
“All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didnt have a reason for it.Yess...”
“Nor when love is of this disinterested sort is there any disgrace in being deceived, but in every other case there is equal disgrace in being or not being deceived. For he who is gracious to his lo...”
“Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.”
“Pure truth is always present, but it is each soul’s choice to decide when he or she wants it to be revealed.”
“There’s more to being a warrior than killing. A true warrior — the best warrior — isn’t cruel or mean. He doesn’t claw an enemy who can’t fight back. Where’s the honor in that?”
“Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.”
“The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.”
“For now, Lady Queen," he said, "allow us to continue to obey you. But give us honorable instructions, Lady Queen," he said, turning a flushed face to hers. "Ask us to do honorable things, so that w...”
“You are new here, so I will explain. In this land, nobility comes not from one’s fathers or a title or from the land one owns, but from one’s actions.” His voice was hard-edged, and his words seeme...”
“These were honoured in their generations and were the glory of the times.”
“I could not love thee dear so much Loved I not honor more.”
“For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all all honourable men.”
