Honourable

Not many MPs are given the title honourable these days. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Magnificence is an attribute of expenditures of the kind which we call honourable, e.g. those connected with the gods-votive offerings, buildings, and sacrifices-and similarly with any form of religious worship, and all those that are proper objects of public-spirited ambition, as when people think they ought to equip a chorus or a trireme, or entertain the city, in a brilliant way. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

They defended teeth and even claws, which they described as honourable weapons of immemorial antiquity. ❋ Unknown (1989)

They may in time do something that shall make their new title honourable, but at present they are bitterly ashamed, and the man who calls them ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

There was one ship, in particular, to which they called his honourable attention. ❋ Unknown (1900)

But with our private fortune, is it worthwhile to purchase at so high a rate a title honourable in itself, but which I must share with every fellow that can lay out 1500 pounds? ❋ James Cotter Morison (1860)

There are cases of expenditure which we call honourable, such as are dedicatory offerings to the gods, and the furnishing their temples, and sacrifices, and in like manner everything that has reference to the Deity, and all such public matters as are objects of honourable ambition, as when men think in any case that it is their duty to furnish a chorus for the stage splendidly, or fit out and maintain a trireme, or give a general public feast. ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle (N/A)

I also understand that MPs are allegedly honourable people and do honourable things, always behave in honourable ways befitting their roles as honourable people and would never engage in anything … … … … … … shall we say underhand or devious. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

There is no single way she would win honourable and with dignity. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The terms honourable, noble, and worthy gentleman, resounded through the room; nay, my landlord himself began to have ❋ Unknown (2004)

That which either wholly or in some considerable portion of it is sought for its own sake, we call honourable: and as there are two divisions of it, one of which is simple and the other twofold, let us consider the simple one first. ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)

SUGDEN is a name honourable behind and before the foot-lights. ❋ Various (N/A)

The word honourable here is not a mere title of office, but is given in reference to his personal character, as being a man of integrity and blameless life. ❋ Unknown (1949)

The old Marshal was persuaded at Bordeaux to vote against continuing the war and to seek an armistice, by Laval and those others that believed that, with France beaten, we couldn't win, and they would be able to obtain honourable terms from the Nazis. ❋ Unknown (1940)

The terms honourable, noble, and worthy gentleman, resounded through the room; nay, my landlord himself began to have a better opinion of him, and almost to disbelieve the account which the guide had given. ❋ Unknown (1917)

If I believed it – or unless I knew that what you did had been in honourable warfare, I don't think I could bear to speak to you again. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Yet it certainly was not -- the word honourable rose to his mind, but he suppressed it at once -- however, nothing else suggested itself. ❋ Ellen Newbold La Motte (1917)

A Nubian slave belonging to my father, his beard had grown white in honourable service: I say "beard" advisedly, because male Arabs are in the habit of shaving their heads. ❋ Unknown (1907)

He has been called the poet's poet -- a phrase honourable but ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)