Honours Quotes
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Honours Quotes & Sayings
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
— Ben Jonson
Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
— Helen Clark
We fight not for glory nor for wealth nor honours; but only and alone we fight for freedom, which no good man surrenders but with his life.
— Bernard De Linton
I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.
— Steve Blake
The Colonel was far too firmly married and full of military honours to be a threat to Phryne's virtue, or what remained of it, so she agreed.
— Kerry Greenwood
The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.
— Richard Mottram
Honour, not honours.
— Isabel Burton
I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.
— Jim Broadbent
I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.
— Kyle MacLachlan
If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.
— Paul Keating
Take care, Sancho," said Samson; "honours change manners, and perhaps when you find yourself a governor you won't know the mother that bore you.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Of all graces, faith honours Christ the most; of all graces, Christ honours faith the most
— T. B. Joshua
Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind ... but as a path for realisation and salvation.
— Ali Akbar Khan
I salute every individual who honours the core values of peace and help in one way or another to make a difference.
— Widad Akreyi
If you wish to make Pythocles honourable, do not add to his honours, but subtract from his desires;
— Seneca.
The Great Chief also honours modesy.
— David Daniels
As a singer, I have won the highest honours in China. Actually I am like the panda: we are both national treasures.
— Peng Liyuan
Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours.
— Alexander Grothendieck
Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.
— William Wordsworth
Many honours I want not, nor great treasures: they excite the spleen. But it is bad sleeping without a good name and a little treasure.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't confuse honours with achievement.
— Zadie Smith
A faire death honours the whole life.
— George Herbert
There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.
— Michael Owen
From which it follows that neither praise nor blame nor honours nor punishments are fair".
— Derk Pereboom
Those that look with contempt upon worldly honours shall be recompensed with the honour that cometh from God, which is the true honour.
— Matthew Henry
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
— David Brainerd
Do not protect only your own honour but also the honours of others!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan