Quotes and Sayings About Honour
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.
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If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
-- Benito Mussolini -
Sachin is the greatest player I have seen. I consider it an honour to have rubbed shoulders with him
-- Brian Lara -
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Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuveSource : Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1875). “English Portraits”, p.91, London : Daldy, Isbister
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Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.
-- Christopher MarloweSource : Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.1004, Delphi Classics
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My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.
-- Cleopatra -
It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
-- Dalton McGuinty -
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Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.
-- David GemmellSource : David Gemmell (2009). “Troy: Shield Of Thunder”, p.193, Random House
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I've enjoyed every minute of travelling and playing for my country. What an honour that is.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
-- Gary Kemp -
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You cannot honour the prophet by dishonouring his teaching.
-- Hamza Yusuf -
In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
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The honour is overpaid,When he that did the act is commentator.
-- James ShirleySource : James Shirley, Alexander Dyce (1833). “Honoria and Mammon. Chabot, Admiral of France. The acardia. The triumph of peace. A contention for honour and riches. The triumph of beauty. Cupid and death. The contention of Ajax and Ulysses, &c. Poems”, p.380
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O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?
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If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.
-- John Russell, 1st Earl RussellSource : Greenock, 19 September 1853.
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Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future
-- Jozef Pilsudski -
There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.
-- Kim Campbell -
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I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
-- Mary Astell -
It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.
-- Murray Walker -
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
-- Oliver Goldsmith -
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Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honour the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
Yea, much more those that seem to be the more feeble members of the body, are more necessary. And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour; and those that are our uncomely parts, have more abundant comeliness. But our comely parts have no need [...
-- Paul the Apostle -
We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions
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Nocht is your fairnes bot ane faiding flour, Nocht is your famous laud and hie honour Bot wind inflat in uther mennis eiris.
-- Robert HenrysonSource : c.1470 The Testament of Cresseid, stanza 65.
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If you can't give me your word of honour, will you give me your promise?
-- Samuel -
The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.
-- Steven Erikson