Honourable Quotes

72 quotes by 68 authors

What an honourable thing is it to be fishers of men! How great an honour shouldst thou esteem it, to be a catcher of souls!… — Thomas Boston
The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes. — Terry Deary
Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave… — Mike Gayle
He's a good, brave and honourable soldier. — Norman Lamont
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the… — Todd Gitlin
They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained… — Michael Davitt
As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion. — Patrick Pearse
Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation. — Mahatma Gandhi
Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways. — Francesco Guicciardini
I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as… — Michael Faraday
Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot… — E L Doctorow
When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on… — Jo Nesbo
Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. — Clement Attlee
There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what… — Gavyn Davies
Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by… — Thomas Carlyle
And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the… — Rene Descartes
The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are… — Arthur Schopenhauer
We fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes;… — Theodore Roosevelt
I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it for… — Ian Mckellen

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