Bernard Cornwell Quotes

Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

As long as I can look my family in the face every day, and they know what type of person I am, I'm cool.

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.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

Honor, without money, is a mere malady.

I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

My name is more important than myself.

I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

The dignity of Peter suffers no diminution even in an unworthy successor

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

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

Just remember, that whatever your write about me, I was a man.

A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.

Well, honor is the subject of my story.

For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes?

To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough of the eagle in my character to make a direct flight to the loftiest altitudes in the social world; and I certainly never endeavored to reach those heights by using the creeping powers of the reptile, who in ascending, generally chooses the dirtiest path, because it is the easiest.

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.