Honourable Quotes

Women are much more honourable than men.

— Martin Firrell

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

— Oscar Wilde

He's a good, brave and honourable soldier.

— Norman Lamont

That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

— Tacitus

“Everything which is of use to mankind is honourable.”

— Fiodor Dostoievsky

“What is holy is Honourable.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Age is honourable and youth is noble.

— Irish Proverb

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

— Seneca the Younger

“It is so much easier to honour the leaders who are honourable.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Why, anything; An honourable murderer, if you will; For naught did I in hate, but all in honour.”

— William Shakespeare

I believe being honourable lasts longer than rapping good.

— Killer Mike

“Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Sometimes I wonder if people realise how beautiful and honourable I find it to play for my country.

— Memphis Depay

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

— Henry Fielding

“No one doubts your honourable nature, most noble of kings and best of brothers.”

— Sylvia Mercedes

If you recognize anyone, it does not mean that you like him.We all, for instance, recognize the honourable Member for Ebbw Vale.

— Lord Randolph Churchill

“Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“How so much honourable is such a contest, in which one's moral conduct and achievement are brought as witnesses rather than the…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?

— William Congreve

I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it…

— James F. Cooper

And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might…

— Rene Descartes

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

— Horace Mann

“Here people was once used to be honourable: now they are all bad; they have kept one goodness: that they are greatest…

— Marco Polo

“The honourable life is like timing. One might not have the talent for it. Take this guy up ahead who's driven 45…

— Karen Solie

“As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand…

— Roman Payne

It is better to be honourable than be honoured.

— Shiv Khera

Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man.

— Arthur Cohn

I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.

— Lee Kuan Yew

Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.

— George Washington

“A victory which is not honourable is nothing but a defeat!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.”

— Plato

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.

— Pierre Trudeau

“How much better to follow a straight course and attain a goal where the words "pleasant" and "honourable" have the same meaning!”

— Seneca