#honor

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#love #marriage #marriage-advice #love

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

Son, a real battlefield lacks dignity and honor. When lives are being spent—actual human lives—those high-minded concepts lose their meaning. All that matters is victory. If you have blades, you’ll use blades. If you have rocks, you’ll use rocks. If there’s nothing but sand, you’ll throw the damn sand. A true war is only waged when men don’t want to live to see what failure looks like. You do what it takes to win. You go wherever necessity takes you. ↗

— B. Justin Shier

#failure #honor #victory #war #men

It's funny how people can change your life without meaning to. Even the fucked-up, crazy people leave everything different when they go away. ↗

— Seanan McGuire

#seanan-mcguire #change

It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. It was such an incredible honor to be asked, and I am so proud of what we and the Alexander McQueen team have created. ↗

— Sarah Burton

#am #asked #been #catherine #create

It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#men #titles #men

It strikes me you might place your gifts better. Why should you send powder to a ruffian who will use it to commit crimes? But for the deplorable weakness every one here seems to have for the bandits, they would have disappeared out of Corsica long ago." "The worst men in our country are not those who are 'in the country.'" "Give them bread, if it so please you. But I will not have you supply them with ammunition." "Brother," said Colomba, in a serious voice, "you are master here, and everything in this house belongs to you. But I warn you that I will give this little girl my mezzaro, so that she may sell it; rather than refuse powder to a bandit. ↗

— Prosper Mérimée

#corsica #honor #outlaws #men

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#duty #expressed #freedom #great things #honor

Great men speak secrets about themselves with nods and gestures, walking away from jokes about women rather than condemn the jokester; if with a woman, the turning of their head during a nude scene in a movie speaking volumes about their character without ever saying a word. It is a language foreign to women, but those that take the time to learn it find themselves knowing more about their man than by any other means. ↗

— Lee Goff

#great-men #honor #inspirational #inspirational

If someone is facing a difficult time, one of the kindest things you can do for him or her is to say, “I’m just going to love you through this. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#difficult-time #honor #joy #kindest #kindness