Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands o...
A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient unprofitable or dangerous to do so.
It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
We are as the dead, Sha said. Our purpose is to dedicate our lives to the service of our lord. And, when it is necessary, to surrender those lives. When we become what we are, we lose our lives - our...
It seems to me, that you people spend a great deal of time talking about honour, but strip away the high sounding words and you are no different from any other race. Family? Has Priam not killed waywa...
Fame is something which must be won honour is something which must not be lost.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
I could not love thee dear so much Loved I not honour more.
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them " A prophet is not without honour save in his own country and in his own house."
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours but in deserving them.
What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.
No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.
Honour follows those who flee it.
I should have hoped to have trained him, my lady, to understand the rules of discretion.Trained! Train a barn-door fowl to be a pheasant, Mr. Horner! That would be the easier task. But you did right t...
An offer indeed, said Lord Brandoch Daha; if it be not in mockery. Say it loud, that my folk may hear. Corund did so, and the Demons heard it from the walls of the burg. Lord Brandoch Daha stood somew...
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.
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 t...
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