Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?
Alfred de VignyOh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing
Alfred de VignyDo you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
Alfred de VignyOf late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
Alfred de Vigny