#honour

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey. ↗

— Mary Astell

#honour #ill #love #neither #nor

1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too. ↗

— Leon Askin

#art #city #cross #deal #great

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#bathing #caught #clothes #conservative #enjoyment

Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#ago #always #changed #deal #haven

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#father #general #great #honour #just

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#cannot #cast #covet #doth #even

I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music. ↗

— Matthew Bourne

#around #audience #conscious #dance #doing

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

— David Brainerd

#greatness #honours #infinitely #none #pleasures

I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him. ↗

— Roger Federer

#am #beaten #childhood #extremely #hero

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

#good #honour #issues #key #many