238 quotes found
“Harper to your word be trueHolder, crafter you also hewTo honesty, integrity, and respectAll others without regard to intellect”
“Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe.”
“We believe that a man does not have to be devoted to the winning side for his loyalty to be celebrated with reverence.”
“Keep to your precious honor. Rather die than sully it. There is only honor in a man's life and the rest is meaningless gibberish.”
“He was a man, take him for all in all,I shall not look upon his like again.”
“Honor," she said, "is the coin that stays in your pocket when all your silver has been spent.”
“But if it be a sin to covet honour,I am the most offending soul alive.”
“A great many grown-up and intelligent people believe, or pretend to believe, that by behaving in a friendly and accommodating way to our attackers, we will show them that they have nothing to fear ...”
“Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be nothing between us in the way of concession. There is nothing possible between us but...”
“A man of honor does swiftly that which must be done.”
“A true love is not shouting and yelling for your beloved, but silently struggling for her honor”
“One owes loyalty, only, to those who demonstrate in kind.”
“The confrontation lasted about five minutes; then the display died out as quickly as it had begun, and everyone drank his fill of the muddy water. Honor had been satisfied; each group had staked it...”
“Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American Ground?”
“The Mayor spoke proudly. 'Yes, they will light it. I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir, butI do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they...”
“What does a title mean to me? I do not need a title. My name, which I achieved with my own strength, is my title. I only wish that posterity would sometime confirm the fact that I have striven to a...”
“When honor dieswhen trust is a useless thingwhat use is life?”
“As she passed the recreation room, she saw Mr. Preston, still sitting quietly in his chair, a blanket over his knees. Are you okay? she asked. Fine thanks. Just gonna sit here a little longer, then...”
“I, too, shall seek honor. But I shall seek it where I know it will be found.”
“It ain't life that left you no choice, its honor!”
