Walter Bagehot Quotes

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

This world is always working against a sense of honor, cleanliness, integrity.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

It is better to be honourable than be honoured.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

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

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Though I be poor, I'm honest.

More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Sir, the gentleman soils the spot he stands on.

The more men value money the less they value virtue.

Honor does not have to be defended.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people

Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

I'm a proper man.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.