Honour Quotes

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
William Shakespeare

Him, Ambitious, Valiant

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
Benjamin Disraeli

Politics, Political, Act

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas Carlyle

Great, God, Daily

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Alexander Pope

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
William Butler Yeats

Courage, May, Battle

The post of honour is a private station.
Joseph Addison

Private, Post, Station

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
Baltasar Gracian

Forget, Others, Sees

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
Abu Bakr

Faith, God, Fear

It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
Wayne Gretzky

Play, Privilege, Thrill

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
Christopher Marlowe

Virtue, Springs, Whence

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.
Nick Clegg

Politics, Political, Made

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.
Richard Steele

Sex, Woman, Sense

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.
Bill Murray

Sometimes, Difficult, Badge

I never thought I'd say the sentence 'It was a real honour' - because that implies that you've done something pretty special. But now I've done that several times. Yesterday I was in Buckingham Palace - I actually met the Queen yesterday and that was an honour. I never thought I'd do something like that.
Ellie Goulding

Real, Done, Thought

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.
Cleopatra

Conquered, Merely, Yielded

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Oliver Goldsmith

Long, Commerce, Prevails

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.
Robert Duvall

Great, Father, Play

It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
Larry Hagman

Love, Money, Today

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
Harold Pinter

Work, Thought, Country

The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it's not something I've ever used and I don't think I ever will.
Sean Connery

Used, Fantastic, Knighthood

It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.
Murray Walker

Best, Against, Greats

Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.
Wayne Rooney

Time, Greatest, Country

When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.
Wayne Rooney

Famous, Weird, Bit

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
Ben Kingsley

Exists, Longing, Hunger

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
Wilhelm Wundt

Thought, Reason, Speak

Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.
George Osborne

Change, Government, Suck

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
Mary Astell

Love, Woman, She

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.
Mary Astell

Men, Doubt, Marry

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
Terry Eagleton

History, Sympathy, Writing

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.
Georg Brandes

Feeling, Afraid, Often

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