Honourable Quotes

72 quotes by 68 authors

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite… — Al Gore
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal… — Benjamin Disraeli
Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An… — Howard Wilkinson
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening… — William Shakespeare
You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think:… — Anton Chekhov
The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still… — Albert Einstein
But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab… — Ian Fleming
Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives. — Sophie Hannah
The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable. — Oscar Wilde
I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One… — Gene Stratton-Porter
Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself. — Margaret Atwood
To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say… — George MacDonald
There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time. — Dalai Lama
It is better to be honourable than be honoured. — Shiv Khera
Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man. — Arthur Cohn
It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it… — Joseph Hume
Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed. — George Henry Lewes
The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people… — Nina Bawden

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