Honours change manners.
He shines with unspotted honours. [ Motto ]
He honours God that imitates Him. [ Sir T. Browne ]
Honours are the rewards of virtue. [ Motto ]
Birds pay equal honours to all men. [ Proverb ]
A fair death honours the whole life. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He flourishes with inherited honours. [ Motto ]
Neither to seek nor to despise honours. [ Motto ]
We'll shine in more substantial honours.
And to be noble we'll be good. [ Thomas Percy ]
Great honours and avarice fly one another. [ Proverb ]
Upon her wit doth earthly honours wait,
And virtue stoops and trembles at her frown. [ William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II. Sc.1 ]
He gave his honours to the world again,
His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]
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 ]
Great honours are great burdens; but on whom
They're cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. [ Ben Jonson ]
From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honours. [ Proverb ]
Hereditary honours are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. [ Plato ]
Honours encourage the arts, for all are incited towards studies by fame. [ Cicero ]
Dignities and honours set off merit, as good dress does handsome persons. [ Proverb ]
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honours are withdrawn. [ Massinger ]
He that claims, either in himself or for another, the honours of perfection will surely injure the reputation which he designs to assist. [ Johnson ]