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Honour Quotes and Quotations

And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them," A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house."

- Bible

No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.

- Calvin Coolidge

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

- Mark Twain

A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable or dangerous to do so.

- Walter Lippmann

The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Honour follows those who flee it.

- Anonymous

God sells knowledge for labour - honour for risk.

- Arabic proverb

Fame is something which must be won; honour is something which must not be lost.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

- Aristotle

I could not love thee, dear, so much Loved I not honour more.

- Richard Lovelace

Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word.

- William Shakespeare

Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.

- Margaret Fuller

No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.

- Spanish proverb