William Hazlitt Quotes

May Honor be given to whom Honor may be due.

It's always strange to get an honor from people who are the ones that should be honored.

I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

A wise person would never be eager to ask for acknowledgment of his or her contribution.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

You mustn't take any award so seriously.

At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

If Uncle Martin were here today, he would surely commend us for giving honor where honor is due.

If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.

One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it.

I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

… his [Charles Evans Hughes’] greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man. I think it was one of the strongest things about [Theodore] Roosevelt. He never tried to minimize what other people did and often exaggerated it..

I respect you, I fear you not; and the less you speak of your own greatness, the more I will think of it.

Permit me also to express my great admiration of the thoughts expressed by you, with such eloquent simplicity & appropriateness, at the consecration of the cemetery. I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

Hats off, gentlemen — if he were still alive we should not be here.