#Honor Quotes

“Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,Live regist'red upon our brazen tombsAnd then grace us in the disgrace of death;When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,Th' endeavor of this present breath may buyThat honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edgeAnd make us heirs of all eternity.”

“Never shame to hear what you have nobly done”

“A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.”

“Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.”

“If we are mark'd to die, we are enowTo do our country loss; and if to live,The fewer men, the greater share of honour.God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.”

“The due of honor in no point omit.”

“I would not lose so great an honorAs one man more methinks would share with meFor the best hope I have.”

“Thanks to menOf noble minds, is honorable meed.”

“Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.”

“Honor's thoughtReigns solely in the breast of every man.”

“Love yourself; and in that love not unconsidered leave your honor.”

“Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!”

“Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.”

“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.”

“But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.”

“As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.”

“In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.”

“We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.”

“In a false quarrel there is no true valor.”

“My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted clay... Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.”

“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.”

“Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!”

“As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”

“Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die.”

“If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?”

“Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello”

“Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.”

“Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.”

“He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.”

“That is honor's scornWhich challenges itself as honor's bornAnd is not like the sire. Honors thriveWhen rather from our acts we them deriveThan our foregoers.”

“What thing, in honor, had my father lost,That need to be revived and breathed in me?”

“For my part, I may speak it to my shame,I have a truant been to chivalry;And so I hear he doth account me too.”

“It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.”

“What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?”

“If I lose my honor,I lose myself: better I were not yoursThan yours so branchless.”

“As I hopeFor quiet days, fair issue, and long life,With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestionOur worser genius can, shall never meltMine honour into lust, to take awayThe edge of that day's celebration,When I shall think or Phoebus' steeds are founder'dOr Night kept chain'd below.”

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope.”

“Perseverance, my dear Lord. Keeps honour bright.”

“I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.”

“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

“Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.”

“As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”

“So well thy words become thee as thy wounds.”

“Now all the youth of England are on fire,And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies;Now thrive the armorers, and honor's thoughtReigns solely in the breast of every man.”

“Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.”

“Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.”

“You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.”

“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.”

“History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.”

“A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.”