1,157 Quotes About Honor

Honor doesn’t revise according to company just as integrity doesn’t diminish due to circumstance.

Éste es el final de la historia de los cuarenta y siete hombres leales —salvo que no tiene final, porque los otros hombres, que no somos leales tal vez, pero que nunca perderemos del todo la esperanza de serlo, seguiremos honrándolos con palabras.

You think you’re defending my ‘honor,’ but you’re just as bad as he is.

Honor is Surplus Dignity: Honor, at its simplest, is that excess dignity that must be defended with the knife or sword. Wherever honor is at issue, it comes with a sense that dignity can be lost, and therefore must be constantly defended.

He was suddenly aware of the pain rampaging through him. “Where’s Swindler?”“Here.” He crouched beside Sterling. “We got the boy.”Sterling grabbed his shirt, then cursed himself as he fell backward, bringing Swindler with him. “Never make her cry.”He didn’t know if Swindler nodded, because his entire world went black.

Being famous without honor is a thing of no worth.

Honour to Agamemnon is a thing / That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, / A somesuch you might find beneath your bed.

Sometimes words ruin everything.

There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power.