Charles de Lint Quotes

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

I have nothing left but my integrity.

Act with honor, and Honor will aid you

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one's fellow men.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

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

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

Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

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

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.