An Honourable Man Quotes

#1. Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#2. Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man.

Arthur Cohn

#3. When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

William Shakespeare

#4. Better to be an honourable man than a minister of state.

Milovan Djilas

#5. Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men.

William Shakespeare

#7. If you're gonna catch fire; you better love my heat.

Steven Cuoco

#8. Had he been a lunatic or an intellectually honourable man who'd thought things through to their logical conclusion? And was there any difference?

Margaret Atwood

#9. What an idiot I'd been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool.

David Millar

#10. Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

Seneca The Younger

#11. To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

George MacDonald

#12. As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for him ... Honor. A man's honor should be more sacred to him than his life - especially in our age, a time when very few men know what honor is.

Roman Payne

#13. Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

John Ruskin

#14. Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.

George Washington

#15. How can we call ourselves a church and not believe in healing and in miracles? I cannot read four pages anywhere in the Bible without encountering miracles! And the God of the bible is the same today!

T.L. Osborn

#16. The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

William Godwin

#18. Nothing is respectfully amazing than a man who finds no shame to tell the world how grateful he is for all the love and sacrifices his woman made..

Himmilicious

#19. Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man ... such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.

A.S.A Harrison

#21. Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs?

William Shakespeare

#22. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#23. A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

#24. It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

Joseph Campbell

#25. Auguste had fought with honour. He had
been the one honourable man on a
treacherous field.

C.S. Pacat

#26. Trees make man happy in thousands of different ways; in return, man hurts the trees in thousands of different ways! What an honourable being man is!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. Were any losses worth the gains?

Mary E. Pearson

#28. How was it possible that the most honourable man she knew should be so overwhelmed by foul and baseless rumours? It made you suspect that honour had, in itself, a quality of the evil eye . . .

Ford Madox Ford

#29. The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.

S. Kelley Harrell

#30. Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.

Mike Gayle