Honor Quotes - Quotes about Honor

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."

"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it."

"I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty."

"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."

"Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes by chance."

"Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."

"The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."

"Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times."

"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught."

"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."