Honour Quotes - Page 23

• Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

  Moliere

  Heart, Men, Noble Man

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• Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Japan

  "The Second World War, Volume III : The Grand Alliance". Book by Winston S. Churchill, chapter 32, 1950.

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• Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings,
  The noble mind's distinguishing perfection
  That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her
  And imitates her actions where she is not:
  It is not to be sported with.

  Joseph Addison

  Kings, Law, Ties

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes”, p.364

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• I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks.

  Richard Briers

  Couple, Garden, Lovers

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• It is sweet to remember that the exaltation of Christ in heaven is a representative exaltation. He is exalted at the Father's right hand, and though as Jehovah He had eminent glories, in which finite creatures cannot share, yet as the Mediator, the honours which Jesus wears in heaven are the heritage of all the saints. It is delightful to reflect how close is Christ's union with His people. We are actually one with Him; we are members of His body; and His exaltation is our exaltation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Jesus, Father

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• A God must have a God for company.
  And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend.
  Thou honour'st his obedience, he thy law.
  Into thy secret life-will he doth see;
  Thou fold'st him round in live love perfectly-
  One two, without beginning, without end;
  In love, life, strength, and truth, perfect without a flaw.

  George MacDonald

  Love Life, Son, Law

  George MacDonald (2006). “A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul”, p.209, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Perseverance, my dear Lord. Keeps honour bright.

  William Shakespeare

  Perseverance, Dear Lord, Lord

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 150

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• Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Virtue, Ought, Reap

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• Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in God's honour, such as fasts, vigils, prayers, and similar good deeds of all kinds. They do all these things so that our Lord may give them something, or so that God may do something dear to them. All these people are merchants.

  Meister Eckhart

  Prayer, People, Giving

  Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books

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• Russia will honour its international commitments. Our country is a reliable borrower, a reliable creditor and a reliable supplier. Sanctions come and go, but business ties, economic interests and the reputation of a state remain

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Country, Commitment, Russia

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• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . . . . . . Prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culminating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Prayer, Sacrifice

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• It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.

  Philip Larkin

  Writing, Trying, Good Poetry

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982”, p.72, Faber & Faber

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• God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us is not always good for us. If he sends us death, or an increase of sickness, instead of a cure, Vvrga tua et baculus, tuus ipsa me consolata sunt. "Thy rod and thy staff have comforted me," he does it by the rule of his providence, which better and more certainly discerns what is proper for us than we can do; and we ought to take it in good part, as coming from a wise and most friendly hand.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Hurt, Hands

  Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.295

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• Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as an incomprehensible power, the original and preserver of all things, all goodness, all perfection, receiving and taking in good part the honour and reverence that man paid him, under what method, name, or ceremonies soever.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Names, Perfection

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.536, 谷月社

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• The big honour of the big revolutions belongs to the high intelligence who design the revolution, not to the masses who support and participate the revolution!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Design, Support, Revolution

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• The moon doesn't have enough gravity to keep an atmosphere around it and some men doesn't have enough honour to keep God's angels around them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Angel, Moon, Men

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• The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Hate, Independent, Government

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• Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will be belonging to the clever people of the society only! For the others, merely the deep shame will remain!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, People, Proud

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• When your enemy falls to the ground, help him to get up! Never let a man in that condition stay on the ground! To help the weak, be it enemy, be it rival, is an honour for you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fall, Men, Enemy

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• Whenever you find a good idea, search for the owner to honour him!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ideas, Owners, Good Ideas

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• With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine, or the commencement of the new one, we trust they will not ultimately result in this generation's being acquainted with these inventions through the medium of pen, ink and paper merely; and still more do we hope, that for the honour of our country's reputation in the future pages of history, these causes will not lead to the completion of the undertaking by some other nation or government.

  Ada Lovelace

  Country, Ink And Paper, Government

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• I am very proud and honour-red to be the England manager.

  Fabio Capello

  Proud, Red, England

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• I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?

  Laurence Sterne

  Passion, Heart, Iron

  Laurence Sterne, James P. Browne (1873). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author”, p.217, London : Bickers, H. Sotheran

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• Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has inview.... It is a strange way of doing honour to God, to screen actions which are a disgrace to humanity.

  Laurence Sterne

  Blessing, Doors, Law

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.513

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• It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.

  Anthony Trollope

  Pride, Names, Letters

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Can You Forgive Her? (Unabridged): Victorian Classic from the prolific English novelist, known for Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Palliser Novels, The Prime Minister, The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne and Phineas Finn…”, p.339, e-artnow

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