#dishonor

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

— Samuel Richardson

#action #base #being #dishonorable #doing

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#amending #constitution #destructive #dishonorable #i

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#believe #choosing #come #course #dishonor

Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, could you not have loved me? I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#deception #dishonor #falsehood #love #shame

…the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#death-before-dishonor #in-the-end #inevitable #oaths #the-dead

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive. ↗

— Bruce Jay Friedman

#attractive #behavior #code #dishonorable #friend

You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#beings #created #creator #dishonor #divine

Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it 'sucka-free', loved one! ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#deceit #deception #disgrace #dishonor #quotes

It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#dishonor #dripping #felt #guard #guards

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible. ↗

— Epictetus

#dishonorable #find #invincible #means #seek