Honour Quotes

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that's a big honour so I spend half an hour before I get in the ground and 40 minutes to an hour after the game with the Everton fans signing autographs.

It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.

If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

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

The post of honour is a private station.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.

Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.

It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.

THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government.

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

And as far as possible for sickness or fatigue, constrain yourself to eat in the hall before your people, for this shall bring great benefit and honour to you.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well.

What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.