Honorable Quotes · Page 8

Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.

— Jeaniene Frost

“What is honorable must be revered and defended, regardless of where it is found. Baseness must be despised—and fought—wherever it is found.”

— Brian K. Fuller

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

— Thomas Jefferson

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half…

— Aneurin Bevan

I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

— Felix Frankfurter

Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful…

— Ansel Elgort

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

— Ambrose Bierce

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and…

— Archibald Cox

I read a script or I read a project or I read a novel and I know that I'm going to spend…

— Robert Schwentke

Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in…

— Anonymous

“When religious people take the stance that they don’t owe anyone that is hurting closure or answers then God is not winning.…

— Shannon L. Alder

If the black man is allowed to separate and go into some land of his own where he can solve his own…

— Malcolm X

It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to…

— James F. Byrnes

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the way to solve this problem is for the white man to give us some territory…

— Malcolm X

It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has…

— Thomas Jefferson

All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make…

— Frank Herbert

“While it is unclear who had done so, someone had produced a heroine. Cleopatra's was an honorable death, a dignified death, an…

— Stacy Schiff

Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it:…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes…

— Hinton Rowan Helper

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not…

— George Stillman Hillard

“Trocmé was disagreeable in the same magnificent sense as Jay Freireich, and Wyatt Walker, and Fred Shuttlesworth. And the beauty of the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The Koreans that make their money in our community: If we have a Black bank, you'll find they don't deposit anything of…

— Louis Farrakhan

“Hero' is not an official status or designation, but if the world recognize you as a hero, it is the highest honor…

— Amit Kalantri

“I never counted on you, lass. You are strong, honorable, clever, shrewd, beautiful, and resilient. You doona ever quit, and you doona…

— Donna Grant

“Being a cat means beautiful, agile, innocent, brave, curious and trust also honorable respect for as much as not so doing bribery.”

— Sekar Arum

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

— George Bernard Shaw

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that…

— Harriet Martineau

We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

— Mario Puzo

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I mean to suggest that without a transcendent and honorable purpose, schooling must reach its finish, and the sooner we are done…

— Neil Postman

For the most part, cops are decent and honorable, but that's how I know that there are bad cops, cops that you…

— Nancy Grace

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum…

— Quintilian

The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly,…

— Michel de Montaigne

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

— William Bradford

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

— William J. Clinton

No matter how difficulties put you on back foot, never loose heart , keep up trying. Outcome will be worth honorable.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?

— Zora Neale Hurston

Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge