Honour You Quotes

• People may hurt you but God will heal you. People may humiliate you but God will honour you. People may judge you but God will justify you.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Hurt, People, Judging

  Twitter post from Apr 26, 2013

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• If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.

  Hakim ibn Hizam

  Wisdom, Islamic, Ignorant

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• I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Men, Feelings

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.97

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• All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Erol and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Pain, Men, House

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• Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Hands, Tables, Littles

  Hunter S. Thompson (1999). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• But if anyone were to conduct his life by reason He would find great riches in living a peaceful life And being contented; one is never short of a little But men want always to be powerful and famous So that their fortune rests on a solid foundation And they can spend a placid life in opulence. There isn't a hope of it; to attain great honours You have to struggle along a dangerous way And even when you reach the top there is envy Which can strike you down like lightning into Tartarus. For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level.

  Lucretius

  Powerful, Struggle, Men

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.167, Psychology Press

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