Honorable Quotes - Page 14

• General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

  James Longstreet

  War, Fighting, Term

  35 Copy quote

• My goal was livelihood. We don't use that word often enough. If I could give one piece of advice to anyone it's don't obsess with this notion that you have to turn everything you do into a business, because that ends up being a small version of a large company. But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

  Anita Roddick

  Skills, Giving, Goal

  12 Copy quote

• I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

  Archibald Cox

  Lying, Home, Plot

  24 Copy quote

• Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Hands, Architecture, Intention

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.471, Open Road Media

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Community, India, Finals

  4 Copy quote

• My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Nations

  4 Copy quote

• We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

  Katherine Paterson

  Mistake, Path, Horrible

  5 Copy quote

• The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam and he has called about him everyone that was in distress and everyone that was discontented.

  John Bright

  Party, Political, Gentleman

  4 Copy quote

• I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Husband, Long, Waiting

  7 Copy quote

• You do have the idea of being ‘just good friends?’” He gave her a sideways look. “For so high and honorable an estate,” Roshaun said, “ ‘just’ seems a poor modifier to choose.

  Diane Duane

  Good Friend, Ideas, Looks

  4 Copy quote

• Da, hes waiting for me to tell the two of you our news first, then he'll join me." He cocked a dark brow at her. "And why would he not come to your mother and me first and ask permission to handfast with you, as is the honorable thing to do?" She cocked her own brow, mirroring his expression perfectly. "Because he's not stupid. Anyone with any sense would be scared of you two. But even scared to death, he wanted to come with me. I wouldn't let him. I knew I needed to talk to you alone first.

  P. C. Cast

  Mother, Stupid, Dark

  4 Copy quote

• You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Honorable Man, Honest

  5 Copy quote

• The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Dying, Bed

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm 40 years old now and I have my friends from five years old up to 40, over 20 lifelong friends I have. And you can't keep that. You can't have that kind of friendship with people for 40 years from childhood friends if you're not an honorable person and if you're not a respectful person. And that's exactly what I am.

  Tony Vlachos

  Years, People, Childhood

  "Interview: Tony Vlachos talks ‘Survivor: Cagayan’". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. May 27, 2014.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• For now, Lady Queen," he said, "allow us to continue to obey you. But give us honorable instructions, Lady Queen," he said, turning a flushed face to hers. "Ask us to do honorable things, so that we may have the honor of obeying you.

  Kristin Cashore

  Queens, Giving, Honor

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.315, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.

  Socrates

  Men, Should Have, Honorable Man

  9 Copy quote

• Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Enemy, Victory

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.216, Knickerbocker Classics

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot... I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand.

  George Washington

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Heart

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.115

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

  James C. Scott

  Careers, Agriculture, Population

  "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no honorable alternative save to enforce it and I am enforcing it, to the furious rage of the saloon keepers, and of many good people too; for which I am sorry.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Sorry, Sunday

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “Letters”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Cells, Space, Flying

  "Inner Space". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and I’d be killed. An honorable death doesn’t exist. Death is death. But it’s funny that survival and revenge require the same thing: no honor codes, no supposed higher principles to aspire to, no mercy

  Frank Beddor

  Revenge, Enemy, Survival

  4 Copy quote

• Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

  Stephen King

  House, Plot, Stories

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Party, Hands, Poverty

  17 Copy quote

• did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were brave to overcome. for this was it a glorious , for this was it an honorable undertaking

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Sea, Southern, Brave

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.256, Collector's Library

  4 Copy quote

  Show source