"'My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' he muttered to himself, 'and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.'" - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Honour is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it." - Akhenaton

"Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall porters." - G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

"In honourable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought." - Cicero

"No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave." - Calvin Coolidge

"It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." - Mark Twain

"Honor is like a rugged island without a shore; once you have left it, you cannot return." - NICOLAS BOILEAU, Satires

"Honor is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall porters." - G.K. CHESTERTON, Heretics

"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Conduct of Life

"There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved." - FRANCIS I OF FRANCE, letter (to his mother after the Battle of Pavia, 1525)

"Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living." - JUVENAL, Satires

"I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more."
- RICHARD LOVELACE, To Luscasta, on Going to the Wars

"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught." - H.L. MENCKEN, Prejudices

"Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honor lies."
- ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man

"Without money honor is nothing but a malady." - JEAN RACINE, Les Plaideurs

"Set honorin one eye and death i' the other
And I will look on both indifferently;
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honor more than I fear death."
- SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar

"Honor wears different coats to different eyes." - BARBARA TUCHMAN, The Guns of August