“Death rather than disgrace.”
Mors potius macula
“Let my honor be without stain.”
Sit sine labe decus
“The post of honor is a private station.”
“Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.”
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
“As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.”
“Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.”
“The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.”
“Honor lies in honest toil.”
“Honor is the reward of virtue.”
“All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.”
“A person dishonored is worst than dead.”
“Better not be at all than not be noble.”
“Without money honor is merely a disease.”
“Act well your part; there all honor lies.”
“One may survive distress, but not disgrace.”
“He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.”
“Honor is simply the morality of superior men.”
“Why should honor outlive honestly? [Orthello]”
“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.”
“Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.”
“The higher the culture the more honorable the work.”
“To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.”
“No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.”
“Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.”
“I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.”
“For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.”
“Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.”
“Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.”
“Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.”