Quotes On Pride And Honour

#1. I really understand the idea of pride and honour. I have that in my family, so I understand it completely.

Monique Coleman

#2. I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!

Thomas Hardy

#3. The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

Bernard Crick

#4. Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.

Karen Blixen

#5. I know we are supposed to welcome anyone who vows to protect the kingdom, but really, anyone will do anything for a copper these days, and where pride and promises are saleable, expendable men come very cheap indeed.

Michelle Franklin

#6. My honour and my pride are in my heart, and not in what the world says.

Philippa Gregory

#7. For the sight of him inflicted such strange tremors in my mind and body that I reacted as a tender shoot must at the first touch of the sun's rays, as it awakens to a joyful beginning.

April Grey

#8. Leaders are not worried about the respect and honour they can be given, but the impacts and influence they can give!

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. Maybe talking's just not your thing," Emily said gently, suddenly acutely aware of his discomfort. "Maybe it's screaming or kicking things or... splattering paint against a wall or fucking, or I don't know - any of a million things.

Laila Blake

#10. 23. A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

Anonymous

#11. There is a trick to this mystery of faith, I think. It is not a difficult concept, but in practice, it's harder than charging hell with water pistols.

Seth Haines

#12. Ah yes.' Peter's tone was scornful. 'And they must always be paid before the poor tradesmen's bills, mustn't they?'
'They must indeed. They are debts of honour.'
'Oh, Mary.' He leant over and kissed me quickly. 'What a lot we'll have to argue about after we're married.

Jennifer Paynter

#13. Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#14. I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it's a great honour.

Alan Ball

#15. It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,
not though it be of the Garter,
confers so fair an honour.

Anthony Trollope

#16. Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#17. But really, and upon my honour, I will try to do what I think to be wisest; and now, I hope you are satisfied.

Jane Austen

#18. We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.

Salman Rushdie

#19. I think I have made just one picture that I really like ...

Ingmar Bergman

#20. On my honor, I swear to you, that from my first day in office to the last breath I draw, I will do everything in my power to make you proud of your government.

John McCain

#21. I have come to realise that your are the most important person in the world to me, and I wanted to know if you would consider ... if you would do me the honour of becoming my wife

C. Allyn Pierson