Honour Quotes - Page 26

• Why on earth should we be at each other's throats? Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change than an idea?

  J. G. Farrell

  Ideas, People, Earth

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• There are many artists I would like to have the honour to cooperate with. To accompany Barbara Streisand or Paul McCartney or Elton John would be a dream for me as I have a lot of admiration for their voice, their talent and their charisma.

  Richard Clayderman

  Dream, Artist, Voice

  Source: performancereviewed.com

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• As a rule, [populism] is done for the sake of political expediency by those who do not care about the consequences, who do not think even one step ahead, who do not want to think and do not intend to honour their commitments.

  Vladimir Putin

  Commitment, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Recognize and honour your uniqueness.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspiring, Uniqueness

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• "My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."

  Charles Dickens

  Dust, Two, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Our Mutual Friend: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's a great honour to be part of such an iconic brand as Paco Rabanne. It was totally different for me, so it was quite challenging in a sense, but it's an experience that I'm really enjoying. It's been just over a year and a half now. I'm really enjoying it and hopefully it will continue for a fair bit into the future.

  Nick Youngquest

  Challenges, Different, Enjoy

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• As long as Muslims cross this red line - if they commit crimes, if they start beating up women, if they start the genital mutilation, if they start to commit other crimes and honour killings as they unfortunately do in Western Europe many times - if they do that, I believe we should expel them, the same day if possible, from our country.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Believe, Europe

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• Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we have genital mutilation, that we have streets where women with headscarves and burqas are not the exception any more. And that it's getting worse.

  Geert Wilders

  Benefits, Statistics, Killing

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself.

  Nas

  Artist, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: www.metabunker.dk

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• Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.

  Jonathan Swift

  Believe, Character, Pride

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.305

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• What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

  John Milton

  Lying, Waste, Wasting Time

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.152

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• Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.

  William Wordsworth

  Brother, Community, Gentleman

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 9, l. 227

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• O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?

  John Milton

  Pairs, Mutual

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.57-8.

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• And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.

  Matthew Arnold

  Stars, Pain, Grief

  Matthew Arnold (1889). “Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold”

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• A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Justice, Principles

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.156, Delphi Classics

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• Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic.

  Charles James Fox

  Powerful, Accomplishment, Wish

  Charles James Fox (1970). “Memorials and correspondence”

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• What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'

  John Sentamu

  Writing, Sunday, Opportunity

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• The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Children, Fool, Bait

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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• We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.

  Robert the Bruce

  Fighting, Men, Good Man

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• Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

  Samuel Smiles

  May, Glory, Burden

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.88

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• Life's about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It's about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you try to shut one of those off, you shut them all off. I don't want to be happy. I know I won't live happily ever after. I want more than that, something richer. I want to go right up close to the beauty and the ugliness. I want to see it all, know it all, understand it all. The richness and the powerty, the joy and the cruelty, the sweetness and the sadness. That's the best way I can honour my friends who died.

  John Marsden

  Hate, Grief, Sadness

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• Then, at the end of every hand, Miss Bolo would inquire with a dismal countenance and reproachful sigh, why Mr. Pickwick had not returned that diamond, or led the club, or roughed the spade, or finessed the heart, or led through the honour, or brought out the ace, or played up to the king, or some such thing; and in reply to all these grave charges, Mr. Pickwick would be wholly unable to plead any justification whatever, having by this time forgotten all about the game.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Kings, Humorous

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.312

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• When you look back you talk about legends of the game, he's certainly up there. Twenty trophies since 1994. He just seems to get better and better. I've had the honour of playing alongside him. The four years I've played alongside him, he is the best player, one of the first names on the manager's teamsheet. He is just a complete legend. There are not enough players like Paul Scholes around any more for my liking. 'Legend' is over-used but this guy is right up there with the very best.

  Dwight Yorke

  Player, Years, Games

  "Rio: Scholes is the best player of his generation, fact!". www.mirror.co.uk. May 31, 2011.

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• Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man.

  Umar

  Real, Men, People

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• My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.

  Lindsay Fox

  Cousin, Father, School

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