Honours Quotes
58 Honours quotes by 54 unique authors
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But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our…
— C.S. Lewis
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For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all…
— Thomas Paine
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If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might…
— Charles Spurgeon
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And if I get a little chemically imbalanced in the head, like we all know I tend to get sometimes, and I don't want my…
— Melina Marchetta
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I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or…
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people…
— Saint Augustine
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want…
— Idries Shah
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Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own…
— Geoff Mulgan
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I was 16 when I got admission in Hans Raj College. I completed school when I was 16, so everyone in my class - Zoology…
— Anurag Kashyap
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The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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As a singer, I have won the highest honours in China. Actually I am like the panda: we are both national treasures.
— Peng Liyuan
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I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours…
— Michael W. Smith
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At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This…
— Michael Leunig
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Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours.
— Alexander Grothendieck
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honours depend upon heaven.
— Confucius
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Service honours you with blessings
— Shantell
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