“Leave not a stain in thine honour.”
Bible
“Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: / Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: / Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; / And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, / And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; / And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! / I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.”
“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain”
C.S. Lewis
“'Theocracy' has always been the synonym for a bleak and narrow, if not a fierce and blood-stained tyranny”
William Archer
“My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.”
Cleopatra
“Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them”
Thomas Fuller
“Red lips are not so red/ As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
Wilfred Owen
