Honour Quotes - Page 16

• It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Vanity, Abuse, Honor

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• When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Character, Honor, Deeds

  "Septem Sapientum Sententiæ Septenis Veribus Explicatæ". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year.

  Michael Faraday

  Integrity, Science, Years

  On being offered the Presidency of the Royal Society, in J. Tyndall 'Faraday as a Discoverer' (1868) 'Illustrations of Character'

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• The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honour in challenging; it was ineptitude - a grey spread of cotton that seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way. She stood, disarmed, before the riddle of what made this possible, she could find no answer.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Challenges, Ineptitude

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• It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

  Terry Eagleton

  Sympathy, Lying, Writing

  "What would Rousseau make of our selfish age?" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

  Jim Broadbent

  Helping Others, Thinking, Receiving

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• To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour.

  Lily Collins

  Kids, Play, Fairytale

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• Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.

  Michelle Dockery

  Powerful, Years, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every year I look at the 'GQ' Best-Dressed List and have thought what an honour it must be to be included. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my own face in there.

  Douglas Booth

  Believe, Eye, Years

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• If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

  Paul Keating

  University Degrees, Class, Greed

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• It's always an honour doing anything for your country.

  Gary Kemp

  Country

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• It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.

  Kevin Rudd

  Australia, Ministers, Prime

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am determined to honour the confidence which has been extended to us by the people of our great land. And I say to all of those who have voted for us today, I say to each and every one of them that I will be a prime minister for all Australians.

  Kevin Rudd

  Land, People, Today

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Saws, Admiration, Absurd

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• ...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.

  Orson Scott Card

  Dream, Believe, Writing

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• I absolutely loathe and hate the work... But I love youth. I realise how lucky it is being with youth, and what an honour that is. Nowhere else could a fat 47-year-old speak to people as young as this. They'd think you were a paedophile.

  Louise Wilson

  Hate, Love You, Thinking

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• It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Powerful, Invention

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, Men, Noble Man

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.664, Simon and Schuster

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• God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Atheist, Men, May

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• Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

  John Milton

  Men, Endurance, Sides

  John Milton (2003). “The Major Works”, p.327, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In Pakistan lies our deliverance, defence and honour...In our solidarity, unity and discipline lie the strength, power and sanction behind us to carry on this fight successfully. No sacrifice should be considered too great. We shall never accept any future constitution on the basis of a united India.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Lying, Sacrifice, Fighting

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• Obviously, it was a big life change for me and quite a shock to suddenly have these songs I'd written in my bedroom as a far-too-intense teenager all over the airwaves and see my face on buses, especially in a small country like New Zealand, but at the same time it was such a thrill and an honour knowing that my music was reaching people.

  Brooke Fraser

  Country, Song, Life Changing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• To the Everlasting Father, And the Son who made us free And the Spirit, God proceeding From them Each eternally, Be salvation, honour, blessing, Might and endless majesty.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Father, Son, Blessing

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• To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Kings, Giving, Soul

  "The Mayor of Zalamea". Play by Pedro Calderon de la Barca, 1636.

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• I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable.

  Enoch Powell

  Betrayal, Weakness, Depth

  "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 47), 1999.

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