Honour Quotes

Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.

— Christopher Marlowe

“more enemies, more honour.”

— Robert Harris

A good death does honour to a whole life.

— Petrarch

Honour, cherish and nourish yourself.

— Brandon Bays

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

We worship money instead of honour.

— Harry S. Truman

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

— Zadie Smith

The Great Chief also honours modesy.

— David Daniels

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

— Robert Genn

These two clubs had a monopoly of the domestic honours last season.

— Tony Gubba

“What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?”

— Rudyard Kipling

Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.

— Edward Coke

Be just to everyone and don't look for an honour greater than this!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“For to die with honour is far better than to live disgraced.”

— Anonymous

Why is it a badge of honour to say you spent 15 years in AA ball?

— John Layfield

“The fear o’ hell’s a hangman’s whip to haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor grip, let that…

— Robert Burns

If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A man can have no greater honour than to be accepted by God as an able Minister of the gospel”

— Obameso Sunkanmi

Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the…

— Bryan Mosley

The honour of carrying the Canadian flag... brings with it a sense of duty, privilege, and above all, great pride.

— Tessa Virtue

My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my…

— Miranda Hart

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen…

— Fritz Haber

“When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there…

— Ernest Rutherford

I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our freedom, and even…

— J. Neven-Pugh

Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can…

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the…

— August Krogh

He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he…

— Samuel Johnson

John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from…

— Paul Cornell

If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how…

— William Shakespeare

It's an honour to wear the shirt and the badge, and to be part of such an illustrious club is gonna be…

— Asmir Begovic

“I want my honour to be about me as a person, not me as an object with boundaries and gateways, as if…

— Philippa Gregory

To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have…

— Humphry Davy

We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own…

— Oliver Cromwell

As long as Muslims cross this red line - if they commit crimes, if they start beating up women, if they start…

— Geert Wilders

The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it.…

— Winston Churchill

The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she…

— Ayn Rand

There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest…

— Edmund Spenser