1,157 Quotes About Honor


  • Author Emily Post
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    Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

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  • Author Jodi Picoult
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    It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

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  • Author Jodi Picoult
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    Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

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  • Author Marcel Proust
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    Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.

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  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    (About a cookbook...) - What about this one? Maids of Honor? - Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.

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  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    Humans need fantasy to be human. Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet you act, like there was some sort of rightness in the universe by which it may be judged:Yes. But people have got to believe that or what's the point?My point exactly.

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  • Author Thomas Paine
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    Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

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