Sentence examples for is more honourable from inspiring English sources

When Hamlet says a custom is more honoured in the breach than the observance, he means it is more honourable to break it than keep it, as is clear from the context (Claudius's celebration of his usurpation of the throne).

She suggests that "it is more honourable to fight with a sword, somehow".

Likewise Plato's conception of love as an abstract intellectual virtue - that the "beauty in souls is more honourable than that in the body" - could never have been dreamt up by someone who had given birth or spent time cuddling, kissing or tickling their kids.

Adorning Egyptian newsstands morning was the photograph of the MP Mohamed Abdel Alim Daoud holding his right shoe up to the cameras with the caption: "My shoe is more honourable than any accusation (sic) the National Democratic party or any government official can aim at me".

Would I be more honourable if I used parliamentary guile to frustrate Brexit?

I still believe that there are more honourable MPs than not, but with every "exposure" you do wonder.

But I'm realistic enough to know that it's a broad church, the world of hedge funds, and I think some people are more honourable than others".

Mr Murdoch's task is to persuade shareholders that his intentions are more honourable than that analogy implies.In contrast with News Corp's sally for Dow Jones, many of the thorny details of the proposed tie-up between Reuters and Thomson, the second- and third-largest providers of financial data respectively, have already been worked out.

Typically, people get honours for their charity work, and I've never even agreed with that, since it tends to mean donations, which tend to proceed from wealth, and all it does is lock down and make flesh the fallacy that rich people are more honourable than everyone else.

It's more honourable to be up front about how you feel than it is to secretly despise something you're doing.

His proposed remedy – inviting the public to revisit the 2016 referendum decision in the light of what has subsequently been learned – is also more honourable than the approach preferred by his elder brother Boris, who resigned earlier this year in pursuit of guerrilla attacks on the government's plan with no hint of viable alternatives.