31 quotes found
“Dignity does not consist in possessing honours but in deserving them.”
“I could not love thee dear so much Loved I not honour more.”
“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...”
“Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.”
“No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.”
“Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora--bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves. Nora: But hundreds of thousands of women ha...”
“The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons.”
“Fame is something which must be won honour is something which must not be lost.”
“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 ...”
