Quotes on Honor

I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul… Love says, “You are right, but don’t claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.