Honour Quotes

Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

The honour is overpaid,When he that did the act is commentator.

Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me.

Honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast.

Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.

Thank you, people of Emmyland. To be nominated in such company is an honour, especially for two shows that I’m immensely proud of. I’m delighted.

The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.

I'm so very proud to be a part of Playmate history. It's such an honour to be one of 12 girls selected each year to represent Playboy all over the world!

Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.

Social honour recognises no distinction between the employer and the unemployed. All of them work for a common purpose and are entitled to equal honour and respect.

For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.

To represent the best of Canada is such an honour, it's chilling. There is so much excitement.

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

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.

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.

I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

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

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways.

The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen... follow [and] honour your feelings.

It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.

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

Playing for England was a massive honour and when I was in the team, that was all I wanted to focus on.

If the basis of trust between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary no longer exists, there is no place for me with honour in such a Cabinet.

The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.

It's definitely an honour and a dream to be able to go out there and have all the people in the stands cheering for you it's a great feeling and I cant wait to get the Olympics started.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

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

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

I’m a huge fan of the books myself, so to know that I got to play Clary – who’s a literary heroine to me – was a huge honour.

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.

The post of honour is a private station.

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

2007 began on a high for me because I had the honour of having my name added the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

I am very proud and honour-red to be the England manager.

But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.

The Great Chief also honours modesy.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.