Fear God; honour the king. [ St. Peter ]
Before honour is humility. [ Bible ]
An affair of honour (a duel).
Let my honour be without stain. [ Motto ]
Love me more, and honour me less. [ Proverb ]
Honour is the reward of fidelity. [ Motto ]
The more danger, the more honour. [ Proverb ]
Greatly to find quarrel in a straw,
When honour's at the stake. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
Love yourself, and in that love
Not unconsidered leave your honour. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]
I would not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honour more. [ Lovelace ]
Honour and profit lie not in one sack. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
Honour and ease are seldom bedfellows. [ Proverb ]
Honour follows him who flies from her. [ Motto ]
The noblest spur unto the sons of fame.
Is thirst of honour. [ John Hall ]
Virtue brings honour, and honour vanity. [ Proverb ]
Discretion
And hard valour are the twins of honour,
And, nursed together, make a conqueror;
Divided, but a talker. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
To be conquered by an hero is an honour. [ Proverb ]
We cannot cc me to honour under coverlet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Better be without food than without honour. [ Italian Proverb ]
Where there is no honour there is no grief. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery. [ Shakespeare ]
The law often permits what honour prohibits. [ Saurin ]
You must honour the place, not the place you. [ Proverb ]
He adds honour to the honour of his ancestors. [ Motto ]
Act well your part; there all the honour lies. [ Pope ]
Honour without profit is a ring on the finger. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Can storied urn or animated bust
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death? [ Gray ]
Not a man, for being simply man,
Hath any honour, but honour for those honours
That are without him, as place, riches, favour,
Prizes of accident, as oft as merit. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]
Lip honour costs little, yet may bring in much. [ Proverb ]
Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
In his light wings, is lifted up to sky;
The scorn of knighthood and true chivalry,
To think, without desert of gentle deed
And noble worth, to be advanced high,
Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed.
Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed. [ Spenser ]
Gold! gold! in all ages the curse of mankind,
Thy fetters are forged for the soul and the mind.
The limbs may be free as the wings of a bird.
And the mind be the slave of a look and a word.
To gain thee men barter eternity's crown,
Yield honour, affection, and lasting renown. [ Park Benjamin ]
When honour grew mercenary, money grew honourable. [ Proverb ]
It is to one's honour to combine justice with law. [ Motto ]
It is a sign of a worthy spirit whom honour amends. [ Proverb ]
Poverty with honour is better than ill-gotten wealth. [ Proverb ]
Clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature. [ Proverb ]
Wealth and honour can never cure a wounded conscience. [ Proverb ]
If virtue keep court within, honour will attend without. [ Proverb ]
Your father's honour is to you but a second-hand honour. [ Proverb ]
A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honour. [ Proverb ]
To every saint his own torch, (i.e. his place of honour). [ Italian Proverb ]
Honour acquired is an earnest of that which is to follow. [ La Roche ]
Good actions done in secret are the most worthy of honour. [ Pascal ]
Nothing deters a good man from what honour requires of him. [ Seneca ]
It is a worthier thing to deserve honour than to possess it. [ Proverb ]
From the spear a crown, (i.e. honour for military exploits). [ Motto ]
Riches are for spending, and spending for honour and good actions. [ Bacon ]
Rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man. [ Bible ]
Youth is covetous of honour; let not this covetousness seduce thee. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
You must not expect sweet from a dunghill, nor honour from a clown. [ Proverb ]
It is not humility, but sordidness, to be regardless of true honour. [ Proverb ]
The king may give the honour, but you are to make thyself honourable. [ Proverb ]
Wealth lost, something lost; honour lost, much lost; courage lost, all lost. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience, and truth may be drowned. [ Kazlay ]
Either virtue is an empty name, or the man of enterprise justly aims at honour and reward. [ Horace ]
Great was the respect paid of old to the hoary head, and great the honour to the wrinkles of age. [ Ovid ]
The age we live in is the true age of gold; by gold men attain to the highest honour, and win even love itself. [ Ovid ]
There is nothing so small but that we may honour God by asking his guidance of it, or insult him by taking it into our own hands. [ John Ruskin ]
Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us honour him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Consider it to be the height of impiety to prefer life to honour, and, for the sake of merely living, to sacrifice the objects of living. [ Juv ]
Beautiful is Peace! A lovely boy lies he reclining by a quiet rill. But war too has its honour, the promoter as it is of the destiny of man. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
That man is an ill husband of his honour that entereth into any action, the failing wherein may disgrace him more than the carrying of it through can honour him. [ Bacon ]
Labour is the ornament of the citizen; the reward of toil is when you confer blessings on others; his high dignity confers honour on the king; be ours the glory of our hands. [ Friedrich Schiller ]