Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Honour is nobler than gold. Gael. Pr.

Honour is not a virtue in itself; it is the mail 55 behind which the virtues fight more securely. G. H. Calvert.

Honour is unstable, and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. Colton.

Honour is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. Emerson.

Honour to whom honour is due. St. Paul.

Honour travels in a strait so narrow, / Where one but goes abreast. Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.

Honour won't patch. Gael. Pr. 60

Honourable (Ehrlich) is a word of high rank, and implies much more than most people attach to it. Arndt.

Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal; but gold and silver will pass all the world over, without any other recommendation than their own weight. Sterne.

Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt. Goldsmith, of himself.