1,157 Quotes About Honor

  • Author Tilar J. Mazzeo
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    I tell their stories here to do all of them some small honor. Their lives and, sometimes, their deaths speak to what we are capable of as average people in the face of evil and horror.

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  • Author Walter Scott
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    ... [T]he pure light of chivalry... distinguishes the noble from the base, the gentle knight from the churl and the savage;... rates our life far, far beneath the pitch of our honour, raises us victorious over pain, toil, and suffering, and teaches us to fear no evil but disgrace.

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  • Author Gabriel García Márquez
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    Most of those who could have done something to prevent the crime and did not consoled themselves with the pretext that affairs of honor are sacred monopolies, giving access only to those who are part of the drama.

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  • Author احمد شاملو
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    چه بسیارکه کُشتند برده‌گیِ زنده‌گی‌شان راتا آقاییِ تاریخ‌شان زاده شود.

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