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Quotes About Honour

He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.
~ Stefan Zweig
The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.
~ Liam Mellows
In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.
~ William Shakespeare
If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
The sports pages are men's pages, although they are not presented as such. /.../ On foreign fields, the men win their trophies, or lose their honour, doing battle on the nation's behalf. The readers, mainly men, are invited to see these male exploits in terms of the whole homeland, and, thus, men's concerns are presented as if defining the whole national honour. The parallel between sport and warfare seems obvious...
~ Michael Billig
Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her fear of her husband, her belief in her honour, my old desire for self-sufficiency, my disappearances, her suspicions of me, my disbelief that she loved me. The paranoia and claustrophobia of hidden love.
~ Michael Ondaatje
It's a great honour that someone like Sir Alex Ferguson goes out of his way to mention my name.
~ Joe Hart
Lots of people come up to me and call me Sir Bruce now. Interviewers call me Sir with every question, but I never make a point of making people call me Sir. It doesn't matter to me, though; it was a great honour to be knighted. I'm very proud of it.
~ Bruce Forsyth
It's an honor to win the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award.
~ Peter Uihlein
It will be an honor to work in the remake of Rajinikanth sir's film. I will be producing as well as acting in the remake of his film 'Moondru Mugam.' I'm a huge fan of his film and I'm really excited to be part of the project.
~ Raghava Lawrence
I would say that, first of all, if you have the honor of being chosen to produce the Oscars, you usually get only one crack at it. We were the first people in sixteen years to do it three times in a row, and it was one of the most profound experiences you could ever imagine.
~ Craig Zadan
I grew up watching PRod and Chris Cole. To be able to skate with them in competition is an honor.
~ Nyjah Huston
Franchise T20 competitions are great and the skill level is very high, but playing for your country is a huge honour and T20 is so popular that it should be recognised as an international game.
~ Jos Buttler
I've always been obsessed with skincare, so representing Shiseido, the skincare powerhouse, is both an honour and a dream come true. I love the way my skin feels every day and every night using Shiseido products.
~ Sui He
Integrity never goes out of style.
~ Jim George
O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?
~ John Milton
I was beginning to learn that my responsibility of being a representative of Jesus Christ would not allow me to do anything that would dishonour His Name. And He was also teaching me that one's actions spoke louder than words when it came to witnessing for Christ.
~ Bilquis Sheikh
Chivalry combined military, religious, and social concepts into a unified way of life.
~ Brad Miner
Jonathan, I want you to promise me something on your word of honour. A promise made to me, but made holily in God's hearing, and not to be broken though I should go down on my knees and implore you with bitter tears. Quick, you must make it to me at once.
~ Bram Stoker
In 1950, he was accorded the dubious honor of being the first prominent scientist to appear on the earliest of Senator Joseph McCarthy's famous lists of crypto-communists.
~ Sylvia Nasar
And last, the rending pain of re-enactment Of all that you have done, and been; the shame Of things ill done and done to others' harm Which once you took for exercise of virtue. Then fools' approval stings, and honour stains.
~ T.S. Eliot
Experience has taught me the power of trophies. You may have every knick-knack and useless contraption ever devised, but while they weigh you down, a simple trophy can go a long, long way.
~ Tahir Shah
I'd like to thank all those who made this award possible–especially Jack Warner.
~ Julie Andrews