Honourable Quotes

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

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

When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him; / And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room. - Bible

Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society. - Keith O'Brien

We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised. - Bible

Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three. - Bible

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party. - Mary Astell

Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few. - Bible

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC. - Gavyn Davies