Honour Quotes - page 2

The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity. (Jean-Baptiste Say)
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life. View quote
James Frazer
Honour is the mysticism of legality. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound. View quote
Edmund Burke
He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad. View quote
Diodorus Siculus
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. View quote
Ben Kingsley
There is nothing so small but that we may honour God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands. View quote
John Ruskin
Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, "Mamma, mamma." You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc., If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her. View quote
Ramakrishna
Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without. View quote
Ramakrishna
Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour. (Muammar Gaddafi)
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education. View quote
Joseph Addison
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges? View quote
John Dryden
I'm not perfect, I'm not an angel, but I try to live a certain way because it brings honour and respect to my mother. I tell people that when they look at me, they're looking at nothing but a big, overgrown, tough mama's boy. That's who I am. View quote
Mr. T
Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honour, false glory, and false religion? View quote
Samuel Richardson
I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour. View quote
Georg Brandes
I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable. View quote
Enoch Powell
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. View quote
Abu Bakr
The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part, and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town. View quote
Henry Fielding
Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honour and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts. View quote
Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honour and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour. I am endeavouring that others, in their turn, will be obliged to yield to my good fortune, and my valour. (Hannibal)
Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour. View quote
Terry Goodkind
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. View quote
Solomon
It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be spectators of this beauteous theatre, but also enjoy the multiplied abundance and variety of good things which are presented to us in it. View quote
John Calvin
This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in some measure imperfect. What consolation is it for us to learn, that, not until we are along with him, does he possess all his parts, or wish to be regarded as complete! Hence, in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, when the apostle discusses largely the metaphor of a human body, he includes under the single name of Christ the whole Church. View quote
John Calvin