“The post of honour is a private station.”
Joseph Addison
“My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.”
Cleopatra
“Honour is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside.”
Nicholas Boileau
“A studious decliner of honours and titles.”
John Evelyn
“Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.”
Christopher Marlowe
“Welcome maids of honour, / You do bring / In the Spring; / And wait upon her.”
Robert Herrick
“As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”
William Shakespeare
