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Honour is like a match, you can only use it once. - Marcel Pagnol, Marius (act 4, sc. 5) The law of honor is a system of rules constructed by people of fashion, and calculated to facilitate their intercourse with one another. - William Paley, Archdeacon of Saragossa Honor, the spur that pricks the princely mind. - George Peele Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind, To follow rule and climb the stately chair. - George Peele, The Battle of Alcazar (act I) We'll shine in more substantial honours, And to be noble, we'll be good. - Thomas Percy, Reliques--Winifreda The Athenians erected a large statue of Aesop, and placed him, though a slave, on a lasting pedestal, to show that the way to honor lies open indifferently to all. - Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia) You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor. - William Lyon Phelps Let honor be to us as strong an obligation, as necessity is to others. - Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus) He died full of years and of honors, equally illustrious by those he refused as by those he accepted. [Lat., Et ille quidem plenus annis abiit, plenus honoribus, illis etiam quos recusavit.] - Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus), Epistles (II, 1) The giving riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever. - Plutarch A Quixotic sense of the honorable--of the chivalrous. - Edgar Allan Poe, Letter to Mrs. Whitman Act well your part; there all the honor lies. - Alexander Pope Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor lies. - Alexander Pope Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 193) Let us do what honor demands. [Fr., Faisons ce que l'honneur exige.] - Francois Rabelais, Berenice (IV, 4) A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.] - Francois Rabelais, Pantagruel (bk. V, ch. VII) Let us do what honor demands. - Jean Baptiste Racine But without money honor is nothing but a malady. [Fr., Mais sans argent l'honneur n'est qu'une maladie.] - Jean Baptiste Racine, Plaideurs (I, 1) The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad. - Theodore Roosevelt That nation is worthless which does not joyfully stake everything on her honor. [Ger., Nichtswurdig ist die Nation, die nicht Ihr alles freudig setzt an ihre Ehre.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans (I, 5, 81) What he feels and not what he does honors a man. [Ger., Das Herz und nicht die Meinung ehrt den Mann.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Wallenstein's Tod (IV, 8, 70) Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. - Arthur Schopenhauer But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. - William Shakespeare Honor travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path. - William Shakespeare Set honor in one eye, and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently: For, let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death. - William Shakespeare Displaying page 4 of 6 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6
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