6 Horatio Nelson Quotes on Honor

Horatio Nelson quotes on honor

3. My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

6. Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey.

8. The Neapolitan officers did not lose much honour, for God knows they had not much to lose - but they lost all they had.

16. In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

21. When I am without orders and unexpected occurrences arrive I shall always act as I think the honour and glory of my King and Country demand. But in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

36. The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle, but he dreads disgrace more.