Honour Quotes
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I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.
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Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
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A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.
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Playing for the national team is always an honour. We must make the most of every opportunity.
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Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind, To follow rule and climb the stately chair.
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“One should honour women and not insult anyone. If there was”
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I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.
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Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.
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One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.
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All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.
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As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
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If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to keep it hid and not to use it. You are a new people and a new world to me. Are all your kin of like sort? Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardners be in high hounour.
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We worship money instead of honour.
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If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved.
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As long as Muslims cross this red line - if they commit crimes, if they start beating up women, if they start the genital mutilation, if they start to commit other crimes and honour killings as they unfortunately do in Western Europe many times - if they do that, I believe we should expel them, the same day if possible, from our country.
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A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.
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Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.
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I feel very well and I’m very happy to be here. It’s an honour for me to represent this club and a dream come true.
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He never tired of watching her breathe. Every night spent beside her was an honour.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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When you’re older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won’t die any quicker, but you’ll be less than the dirt on our boots. You’ll still be dust, but you’ll have wasted your short time in the light.
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"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."
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It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.
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A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
