You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of… — August Spies Copy Share Image
It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the… — F. W. de Klerk Copy Share Image
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
I will ensure we honour the instructions the British people have given us. I argued for specific changes in the referendum campaign,… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
But if anyone were to conduct his life by reason He would find great riches in living a peaceful life And being… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My goal, for almost my entire career, has been to promote ski racing not just in America, but across the world. I… — Lindsey Vonn Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this council which… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Well, Frodo, now at last we understand one another,’ said Faramir. ‘If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others’ asking,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But, new soldier that I was, I understood at last what Cadus had been trying to tell me all along: that life… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at… — Matt Frewer Copy Share Image
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs board game or… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
“But death certainly, and life, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I certainly feel I'm carrying the flag for Britain. I feel an honour in that but, at the same time, knowing my… — Chris Froome Copy Share Image
“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“God is the message owner; prophets and pastors are messengers. It's happens on no account when the messenger becomes greater than the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various… — Leon Askin Copy Share Image
Strange to wake-up this morning as a former ODI cricketer, but it's been a great honour and privilege playing for Sri Lanka… — Kumar Sangakkara Copy Share Image
... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those who… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Kevin Feige said to me: "I don't think we've ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally."… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Honour is Virtue's allowed ascent: honour that clasps All perfect justice in her arms; that craves No more respect than that she… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
