#honour

I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#crown #did #gentlemen #honourable #i

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#honour #springs #virtue #whence

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#badge #big #big deal #both #conventional

I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#few #friends #had #honour #husband

Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour. ↗

— George Osborne

#get #government #honour #never #some

I do honour the very flea of his dog. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#flea #his #honour #i #i do

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#ease #everywhere #exists #flesh #honour

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#because #being #could #first #first world

It is an honour to fight at the Royal Albert Hall. ↗

— Billy Joe Saunders

#fight #hall #honour #royal

But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#been #cared #country #countrymen #depend