Quotes About Dishonorable

#1. This world is filled with many vulgar and dishonorable things that will claw and tear at your Christian purity if you allow them to. Don't let them! Seek instead the things of God. He will purify you and free you from your slavery to profane and inconsequential things.

Patrick Madrid

#2. For whatever it is worth, I never believed Wickham's stories of maltreatment at your hands. Other than being a rather boring, disagreeable fellow, I did not think you so dishonorable that you would go against your father's wishes.

KaraLynne Mackrory

#3. If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Epictetus

#4. No matter what occurs in your life, no matter how bad the circumstances seem to be, you must never consider a dishonorable act as a viable alternative.

James Lee Burke

#5. Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Nothing could be more dishonorable than to accept high rank and command in war and then betray the trust.

Ulysses S. Grant

#7. Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child ... the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.

Ben Lindsey

#8. I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.

Barney Frank

#9. I make it a policy every election to only debate once, Democrats and Progressives. And I will say that the way that you have acted, very candidly, has been dishonorable in this entire campaign.

Matt Shea

#10. And here is a prejudice of mine, confirmed by my lights through many years of observation. Sinners are not all dishonorable people, not by any means. But those who are dishonorable never really repent and never really reform.

Marilynne Robinson

#11. Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

Anton Chekhov

#12. As for vegetables, I do not consider a plot of ground devoted to them worthy of the honorable name of garden. Vegetables are, of course, a part of gardening, but the least, the last, -for those who do not have to raise them, the most dishonorable part.

Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

#13. One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

Adrian Cronauer

#14. A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

H.L. Mencken

#15. All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

Plato

#16. Never divulge secrets to acquaintances.
Never betray old friends for new ones.
Never mistake flattery for praise.
Never rely on dishonorable people.
Never trust your enemy's friends.
Never mistake someone's kindness for weakness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Thomas Sowell

#18. The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

Sophie Swetchine

#19. Art should be a place of hope, not doubt. And your doubts rise from inexperience, which is not a dishonorable thing.

Stephen King

#20. War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

Charles Sumner

#21. Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#22. While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious

Thomas Jefferson

#23. An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
[Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

Tacitus

#24. ...an ambitious array of dishonorable intentions that he intended to wield upon the Countess's nether regions. - BATS 2015

Fred Barnett

#25. In her view, there were three
options for a woman. If you were beautiful, you got married. If you
were ugly, you became a nun. If you were beautiful and stupid, or
ugly and dishonorable, you became a whore.

Nenia Campbell

#26. How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!

Margaret Mitchell

#27. The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

H.L. Mencken

#28. There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it." He shifted slightly in the dark. "And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them.

Robin Hobb

#29. I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

Tilda Swinton

#30. It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.

Andrew Cohen

#31. Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

Plutarch

#32. I would be dishonorable in a relationship because I wasn't getting what I wanted from that person.

Sandra Bernhard

#33. There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Samuel Richardson

#34. Here lies a man who was given a medal for killing two men, and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

Leonard Matlovich

#35. An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

Millard Fillmore

#36. Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

Plutarch

#37. How many dishonorable discharges have you had?" "Lots," said Nobby, proudly. "But I always puts a poultice on 'em.

Terry Pratchett

#38. Those prancing little pants-wetters come here to learn the colorful and gentlemanly art of fencing, with its many sporting limitations and its proscriptions against dishonorable engagements. You on the other hand, you are going to learn how to kill men with a sword.

Scott Lynch

#39. The smart employer looks not for perfection but for an explanation of how the consequences of a dishonorable act affected the candidate and others.

Bruce Weinstein

#40. It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

Seneca The Younger

#41. The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.

Bram Stoker

#42. Even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.
- Mr. Penderwick

Jeanne Birdsall

#43. I've met some great people that deal with me in the press. I've also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly.

Donald Trump

#44. An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

Mark Twain

#45. There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power.

Robin Hobb

#46. Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I'd done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret.

Clive Barker

#47. As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person I ever knew who looked upon childhood as a dishonorable vocation one grew out of as quickly as possible.

Pat Conroy

#48. I just want you to know that we didn't do anything but talk and sleep - sleep sleep," he quickly adds. "Like with eyes closed and hands to oneself and dreaming. Innocent dreams. I would never do anything behind your back. I mean, never anything dishonorable. I mean-

Stephanie Perkins

#49. Dishonorable people do not honor their arrangements. A bill of sale only requires payment, a contract only requires completion, and/or a debt merely requires a payment.

Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea

#50. Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

Charles Sumner

#51. A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

Bruce Jay Friedman

#52. There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Thomas Sowell

#53. It's d-d-dishonourable to peek at someone else's cards."

"Cribbage is cutthroat.

Alexis Hall