Sentence examples for 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).

That's the thing about history: it has its bad and its more honourable parts.

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

The people I'm dealing with now seem a lot more honourable".

Cheaper, more honourable, perhaps, to wait for the box set if you don't mind not being part of the conversation.

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

But two final efforts deserve a more than honourable mention.

The messy Vietnam period found an outlet in the more structured, honourable violence of The Godfather, itself an Oscar magnet in 1972.

So more than honourable mentions to Anietie Isong's "Devotion", about a Nigerian mother having to prostitute herself to secure the release of her rebel son, and to Nick Walker's "Old School Entertainment", a surrealistic take on an escapologist's outrageous performances.

But we'll address more of the Honourable Man's scrum thoughts in due course.

Besides, we Brits are more comfortable with honourable failure, with disappointment.