Honor

"You are not running for reelection here. Be tough when necessary, impartial always. Guard your honor."

"Now, while the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new."

"Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is himself an honour to his titles."

"As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honours lodged, As wise philosophers have judged, Because a kick in that place more Hurts Honour than deep wounds before."

"Of all the resources of government, none are so wastefully employed as its powers of conferring honour. This is true of nearly all countries. In Great Britain the waste is not occasioned by profusion, but by caprice, uncertainty, irrelevance. The king (it was in George III.s time) is asked to give a right of going through the park to some gentleman. "No, no," replies the king, "I cannot do that; but you may make him an Irish baron." The above is not an unfavourable specimen of the way in which honours have been granted."

"Yea, much more those that seem to be the more feeble members of the body, are more necessary. And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour; and those that are our uncomely parts, have more abundant comeliness. But our comely parts have no need [...]"

"Honor is only a label they use for what they want you to do. Chernon. They want you to stay, so they call staying honorable."

"Well, tis no matter; 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. What is that word honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. Is it insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore, Ill none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon; and so ends my catechism."

"It yearns me not, if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But, if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive."

"πῶς δύνασθε ὑμεῖς πιστεῦσαι, δόξαν παρὰ ἀλλήλων λαμβάνοντες, καὶ τὴν δόξαν τὴν παρὰ τοῦ μόνου Θεοῦ οὐ ζητεῖτε;"

"Let none presume To wear an undeservd dignity. O, that estates, degrees and offices Were not derivd corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchasd by the merit of the wearer!"

"Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour."