Honor Quotes

Always deal with people of principle. Favor them and win their favor. Their very rectitude ensures they will treat you well even when they oppose you, for they act like who they are, and it is better to fight with good-minded people than to conquer the bad. There is no way to get along with […]

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious than life. (Troilus and Cressida)

No man of honor, as that word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste and temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, or to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I would have won the Academy Award if not for one thing – my pictures.

Honour is purchased by the deeds we do.

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Honor is but an itch in youthful blood of doing acts extravagantly good.