A Quote by Herman Melville

Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.

Herman Melville

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Dishonor Himself Only Tis Would

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Herman Melville
American - Novelist
August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

Garth Stein

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.

Henry Beston

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

Winston Churchill

It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

Aristotle

Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom... He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope.

St. Catherine of Siena

Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.

Tad Williams

Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.

Ouida

I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book.

Thomas Paine

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

Robert E. Lee

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.

Clark Gable

If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?

Rod Steiger

The honor that we pay to the Son of God, as well as that which we render to God the Father, consists of an upright course of life. This is plainly taught us by the passage, "You that boast of the Law, through breaking the Law dishonor God."...For if he who transgresses the law dishonors God by his transgression,...it is evident that he who keeps the law honors God. So the worshipper of God is he whose life is regulated by the principles and teachings of the Divine Word

Origen

A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress - freedom from anger and patient endurance of injuries; and of the perfect - humility, thirst for dishonors, voluntary craving for involuntary afflictions, non- condemnation of sinners, compassion even beyond one's strength. The first are acceptable, the second laudable; but blessed are those who hunger for hardship and thirst for dishonor, for they shall be filled with the food whereof there can be no satiety.

John Climacus

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.