Honour Quotes - Page 2

• Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind,
  To follow rule and climb the stately chair.

  George Peele

  Honor, Mind, Spurs

  Robert Greene, George Peele (1861). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene and George Peele: With Memoirs of the Authors and Notes”, p.421

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• In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

  Horatio Nelson

  Dies

  "The life of Nelson". Book by Robert Southey, 1813.

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

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Psychology, Doe, Substance

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

  Archilochus

  Law, Safety, Useless

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• Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.

  Akhenaton

  Depressing, Strive, Method

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• The post of honour is a private station.

  Joseph Addison

  Literature, Posts, Stations

  'Cato' (1713) act 4, sc. 1, l. 319

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

  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

  History, Ifs

  Greenock, 19 September 1853.

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• The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.

  Joseph Addison

  Honor, Mind, Example

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.183

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• LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.

  Charles Inglis

  Kings, Spirit, Affection

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• Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, History, Finding Yourself

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• No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love Is, Long, Form

  D. H. Lawrence, Dieter Mehl (2002). “The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird”, p.201, Cambridge University Press

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• Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Thinking, Crowns, Benefits

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.260

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• If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.

  Mary Astell

  Doe, Ill, Ifs

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• 1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.

  Leon Askin

  Art, Mean, Cities

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• Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

  David Brainerd

  Greatness, Sensual, Riches

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.122

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• Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

  Knut Hamsun

  Important, Matter, Today

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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

  Harold Pinter

  Country, Awards, Years

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• Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.

  Wayne Rooney

  Country, Kids, Buzz

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• You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

  T. H. White

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.161, Penguin

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• My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

  Cleopatra

  Winning

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

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Life, Ambition

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [27]

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• What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.

  William Shakespeare

  Air, Honor, Reckoning

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. [131]

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• 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.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Appreciation, Opportunity, Years

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

  Mary Astell

  Men, Doubt, Would Be

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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

  Lord Kelvin

  Faces, Problem, Vow

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