Honour Quotes

Your honour, this is a tough crowd. - Eric Dubin

Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. - Bible

Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, / This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. - Bible

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. - David Brainerd

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. - William Butler Yeats

Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. - Bible

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth? / The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. - Bible

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: / That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: / Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: / Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. - Bible

Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: / Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. - Bible