Honors

Honour is the quality of being honorable.

Honor or honour may also refer to:

  • His Honour, a pre-nominal honorific
  • Honour (feudal land tenure)
  • Honour (play), a 1995 play by Joanna Murray-Smith
  • Honor (band), a Polish band
  • Honor, Michigan, a village in the United States
  • Honor, a high-valued card in contract bridge
  • Honors, in bridge scoring, a bonus for the holding of high-valued cards

Famous quotes containing the word honors:

    “There is a moment when god honors falsehood.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    “My heart’s subdued
    Even to the very quality of my lord.
    I saw Othello’s visage in his mind,
    And to his honors and his valiant parts
    Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)