The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons.
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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 then? No. What is honour? A word.
Honour follows those who flee it.
God sells knowledge for labour - honour for risk.
No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.
Remember the son of whom you are because a good name is better than gold or silver
There is no honour in battle, Dogalas. Men killing men.....no honour. Honour is doing a noble deed and living to tell about it." He glanced over at him. "Remember that.
When you feel weak in spirit, think about the agreements you made with yourself about how to live an honourable life. We all have them, but unfortunately the contracts are often written in invisible ink when they should be signed in blood.
The 19th century had chosen only to remember the happy warrior. The 20th century only the blood come gargling. Both are essential to any understanding of Trafalgar.
Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a little money, but gain a good honour and become very rich!
Everyone has honour and a good name. It is the only sacred thing that every person has.
Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.
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.
Now I remembered a captain's honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive.
Mine honor is my life; both grow in one.Take honor from me, and my life is done.
Honour was like a coat: sometimes one did not have time to put it on.
You will never see me publicly putting a comic down or trying to get them unbooked. If I have a problem with someone they will know. I try to do what is right and not what is easy. You will never see me make jokes about peoples addictions or cries for help. OR other peoples pain for that matter. I believe in lifting up. Not tearing down. Uplift you fellow man. We were born to love one another and to that end I promise what I do in my life is in the name of love.
everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.