199 Quotes About Honour

And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly.

like a drop of ink in a glass of milk

If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

You have less honour than a piece of shit.

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.

The moon doesn’t have enough gravity to keep an atmosphere around it and some men doesn’t have enough honour to keep God’s angels around them!

When a man fails to honour ladies, his own honour must be dead.

I have to consider the honour of my house.' 'Honour?' Jaikie queried. 'Yes, honour,' said Ashie severely. 'Have you anything to say against it?' 'N-o-o. But it’s an awkward word and apt to obscure reason.' 'It is a very real thing, which you English do not understand.' 'We understand it well enough, but we are shy of talking about it.