Quotes having the keyword Honour
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.
by Elizabeth Montagu (Writer, British , born in 1718) keywords: admire, am, assemblies, concerning, good, great, held, honour, kindly, ladies, letter, month, never, opinion, oysters, party, regard, same, she, sure , wits I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.
by Nana Mouskouri (Musician, Greek , born in 1934) keywords: amusing, few, friends, had, honour, husband, important, left, lunch, organised, rather, reception, table, were , where The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
by Harold Pinter (Dramatist, English , born in 1930) keywords: award, companion, country, honour, okay, regarded, thought, which, work , years Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.
by Marcus V. Polliokeywords: among, benefits, crowns, enjoy, entitled, even, gods, honour, indebted, individuals, numbered, only, palms, public, since, them, therefore, these, think, well , writers When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
by George Porter (Scientist, English , born in 1920) keywords: activity, coffee, given, happiness, honour, indeed, informal, life, personally, science, scientist, served, shirt, sleeves, sweet , whole Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.
by Cecil Frank Powell (Physicist, British , born in 1903) keywords: been, commonly, concern, done, feel, great, honour, now, occupy, placed, position, receive, their, them, those , which I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile.
by Frederick Sanger (Scientist, English , born in 1918) keywords: achieve, because, been, believe, doing, enjoyed, even, felt, honour, interested, primarily, rather, riches, strongly, very, were, work , worthwhile I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.
by Fritz Sauckel (Soldier, German , born in 1894) keywords: allow, because, being, could, first, german, honour, imprisonment, refuses, serve, soldier, war , world But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.
by Robert Falcon Scott (Explorer, British , born in 1868) keywords: appeal, been, cared, country, countrymen, depend, enterprise, give, honour, lives, our, properly, see, those, us, which , willing If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
by Abdolkarim Soroush (Philosopher, Iranian , born in 1945) keywords: been, different, express, expression, feels, forms, group, honour, humiliated, identity, shapes, take, trampled, underfoot, want , will A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.
by Richard Steele (Dramatist, British , born in 1672) keywords: commerce, helpless, her, his, honour, man, manner, more, naturally, other, sense, sex, should, than, view , woman Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
by John Strachan (Clergyman, Canadian , born in 1778) keywords: ambition, among, band, boldly, christ, combat, disinterested, enlist, fight, honour, human, join, may, men, our, ourselves, praise, salvation, saviour , trusting He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it.
by Mark Wahlberg (Actor, American , born in 1971) keywords: believe, charlton, down, his, honour, legend, lied, little, movie, nice, paid, respect, respects, said, set, think, went , work We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
by Wilhelm Wundt (Psychologist, German , born in 1832) keywords: any, concepts, does, honour, into, our, reason, speak, substance, these, thought, translate , virtue 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.
by William Butler Yeats (Poet, Irish , born in 1970) topics: History keywords: abyss, battle, courage, die, entering, field, himself, honour, into, man, may, reckless, should, show, those, upon , why
