Honourable rather than showy. [ Motto ]
Want maketh even servitude honourable. [ Hitopadesa ]
By honourable studies and occupations. [ Motto ]
Gashed with honourable scars,
Low in Glory's lap they lie;
Though they fell, they fell like stars,
Streaming splendour through the sky. [ Montgomery ]
What is lawful is not always honourable. [ Law ]
Glory is the torch of an honourable mind. [ Motto ]
Mendings are honourable, rags are abominable. [ Proverb ]
Success makes some species of crimes honourable. [ Seneca ]
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 ]
When honour grew mercenary, money grew honourable. [ Proverb ]
Marriage is honourable, but housekeeping chargeable. [ Proverb ]
Propriety cannot be sundered from what is honourable. [ Cicero ]
The higher the culture, the more honourable the work. [ Roscher ]
An honourable death is better than an ignominious life. [ Tac ]
Nobility of soul is more honourable than nobility by birth. [ Dutch Proverb ]
The king may give the honour, but you are to make thyself honourable. [ Proverb ]
That which we truly call honourable is praiseworthy in its own nature, even though it should be praised by no one. [ Cicero ]
You begin in error when you suggest that we should regard the opinion of the many about just and unjust, good and evil, honourable and dishonourable. [ Plato ]
To him whose soul is more than ordinarily divine, and who has the gift of uttering lofty thoughts, you may justly concede the honourable title of poet. [ Horace ]