The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills to honour Her. There are no recipes for Autumn.
Honour, cherish and nourish yourself.
The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it's not something I've ever used and I don't think I ever will.
If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions!
In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.
When you see your fellow religious man, don't call him brother; but when you see a man of honour, a man of goodness, a man of peace, a man of ethics, now you can call him as your brother!
Don't confuse honours with achievement.
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable.
Art is a path on which we honour our world.
As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind.
I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for whichever side has paid you, affecting warmth and conviction, and doing everything you can to win the case, whatever your private opinion may be, will soon dull any fine sense of honour. The mercenary soldier is not a valued creature, but at least he risks his life, whereas these men merely risk their next fee.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.
There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.
Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.
She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.