Honoured Quotes

88 Honoured quotes by 85 unique authors

You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke… — Johnny Vegas
My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect. — Andrew Card
Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles… — Idris Elba
...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For… — Xenophanes
Iâ€™m honoured when Africa recognises me — Angelique Kidjo
I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured — Kailash Satyarthi
Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured… — Robert Genn
And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!. — Matthew Arnold
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against… — Charles Caleb Colton
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings. — Mahatma Gandhi
When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of… — Joan Collins
I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central. — Lucy Powell
I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I… — Robert Smith
...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be… — Tom Stoppard
He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming… — Hermann Hesse
Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter… — Jennifer Donnelly
The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned. — Friedrich Nietzsche
â€ŽHonoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of… — Richard Dawkins
When he faced me again, he looked ashamed of himself. "I have gravely underestimated you, Darren," he said. "I will not do so again. I… — Darren Shan

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