Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

- Christopher Marlowe

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

- Horatio Nelson

It's always an honour doing anything for your country.

- Gary Kemp

I've enjoyed every minute of travelling and playing for my country. What an honour that is.

- Frank Lampard

It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.

- Dalton McGuinty

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.

- Cecil Frank Powell

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

- Charles Glover Barkla

Kenny Dalglish was the greatest to play for Liverpool and Scotland, so for someone like that to sign me was an honour.

- Charlie Adam

It's an honour to be a world champion, and it can never be taken away from you.

- Caroline Buchanan

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

- Cleopatra

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

- Alexander Pope

For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.

- Bernhard von Bulow

It is an honour to fight at the Royal Albert Hall.

- Billy Joe Saunders

Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'

- Benedict Wong

The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.

- Brian O'Driscoll

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.

- Bill Murray

I do honour the very flea of his dog.

- Ben Jonson

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

- Baltasar Gracian

When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.

- Adam Peaty

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

- Anthony Hopkins