(53 quotes found)
“Honour is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside.”
Nicholas Boileau
“My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.”
Cleopatra
“A studious decliner of honours and titles.”
John Evelyn
“Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.”
Christopher Marlowe
“As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”
William Shakespeare
“Welcome maids of honour, / You do bring / In the Spring; / And wait upon her.”
Robert Herrick
“The post of honour is a private station.”
Joseph Addison
“Hopefully that's the case, it would certainly be an honour,”
Ron Francis
“My greatest honour was to be included in the Australian Olympic team in 1992, 1996 and hopefully 2000.”
Rhonda Cator
“The London attack is one of the attacks that al-Qaida ... had the honour of carrying out against Zionist, British arrogance,”
Ayman al-Zawahiri
