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6,155. To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace. (Society & Wealth & Honour) Confucius, The Analects
76,268. For ’tis the mind that makes the body rich,
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit. William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew IV iii 170-172, Petruccio
76,270. By heaven methinks it were an easy leap
To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon,
Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,
And pluck up drowned honour by the locks. I Henry IV I iii 201
76,271. 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 the word ‘honour’? What is that ‘honour’? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? ... Honour is a mere escutcheon. ibid. IV V i 131-140, Sir John to self
71,977. Set honour in on eye and death i’ in other,
And I will look on both indifferently. (Eye & Honour) William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
46,110. Can honour set to a leg? (Shakespeare & Honour) Henry IV I 2012 starring Roger Allam & Oliver Cotton & Jamie Parker & Joseph Timms & Sam Crane & Jason Baughan & Patrick Brennan & William Gaunt & Christopher Godwin & Daon Broni et al, director Dominic Dromgoole, Globe Theatre Sky Arts, Falstaff
76,269. The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation; that away,
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
A jewel in a ten-times-barred-up chest
Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast.
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one;
Take honour from me, and my life is done. William Shakespeare, Richard II I i 177
46,071. The fewer men, the greater share of honour. (Shakespeare & Honour) The Hollow Crown: Henry V 2012 starring Tim Hiddleston & Geraldine Chaplin & Paul Freeman & Julie Walters & John Hurt & Tom Georgeson & Richard Griffiths & Paterson Joseph & James Laurenson et al, director Thea Sharrock
45,998. For let the gods so speed me that I love the name of Honour more than I fear Death. (Shakespeare & Honour) Julius Caesar 2012 starring Paterson Joseph & Ray Fearon & Cyril Nri & Adjoa Andoh & Jeffery Kissoon et al, director Gregory Duran RSC production ***** Brutus
45,999. Honour is the subject of my story. (Shakespeare & Honour) ibid. Cassius
76,272. Set honour in on eye and death i’ in other,
And I will look on both indifferently. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar I ii 86
76,273. Well, honour is the subject of my story.
I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life: but, for my single self,
I had as life not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself. ibid. I ii 92
76,274. For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men. ibid. III ii 88
76,275. Thy life hath had some snatch of honour in it. ibid. V v 46
9,282. If we are marked to die, we are enough
To do our country loss, as if to love,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour. (Death & Honour) William Shakespeare, Henry V IV iii 20-22, King Harry
76,276. Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour’s at the stake. William Shakespeare, Hamlet IV iv 53 William Shakespeare
13,765. An honourable murderer, if you will
For naught did I in hate, but all in honour. (Murder & Honour) William Shakespeare, Othello V ii 293
20,385. Your father shall learn Mr Fabian is not an honourable man. (GBH Films & Honour & Film Noir) Night and the City 1950 starring Richard Widmark & Gene Tierney & Googie Withers & Hugh Marlowe & Francis L Sullivan & Herbert Lom & Stanislaus Zbyszko & Mike Mazurki et al, director Jules Dassin, Phil to Kristo
23,209. Nothing except honour. (South & Honour) Gone with the Wind 1939 starring Clark Gable & Vivien Leigh & Leslie Howard & Olivia de Haviland & Thomas Mitchell & Barbara Mitchell & Evelyn Keyes & Ann Rutherford & George Reeves & Fred Crane & Hattie McDaniel & Alicia Rhett et al, director Victor Fleming, Ashley
23,264. It is now for you to reclaim our lost honour. (Martial Arts & GBH Films & Honour) Enter the Dragon 1973 starring Bruce Lee & John Saxon & Ahna Capri & Shih Kien & Robert Wall & Angela Mao & Bolo Yeung & Peter Archer et al, director Robert Clouse, Master to Lee
23,268. I say Japan was made by a handful of brave men … A forgotten word – Honour. (Martial Arts & GBH Films & Honour) The Last of the Samurai 2003 starring Tom Cruise & Ken Watanabe & Bill Connolly & Shin Koyamada & Tony Goldwyn & Masato Harada & Shichinosuke Nakamura & Timothy Spall & Seizo Fukumoto et al, director Edward Zwick
24,562. He taught me to appreciate life in ways I’d never thought about before. He taught me about art, and science and diplomacy. Whatever sense of honour I have today, he nurtured. (Star Trek & Honour) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dax s1e8, Sisko of Dax
30,468. Where honour should be, in me there is only a void. (England & Honour) Becket 1964 starring Peter O’Toole & Richard Burton & John Gielgud & Paolo Stoppa & Donald Wolfit & David Weston & Martita Hunt & Pamela Brown & Felix Aylmer & Gino Cervi & Christopher Rhodes et al, director Peter Glenville, Becket
42,727. And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. (Commerce & Honour) Oliver Goldsmith
76,280. Better to die ten thousand deaths,
Than wound my honour. Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy I iv
47,733. Content thyself to do obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station. (Good & Honour) ibid. IV iv
58,843. Who sows virtue reaps honour. (Virtue & Honour) Leonardo da Vinci
58,859. Honour is the reward of virtue. (Virtue & Honour) Marcus Tullius Cicero
72,235. Honour means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost. (Fame & Honour) Arthur Schopenhauer