Honorifics Quotes & Sayings

In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour. — Philippe Halsman

If I go crazy will you still call me superman? If i'm alive and well will you be there holding my hand? — 3 Doors Down

you will understand when I tell you that this staff is about 75% Jewish

--Letters from Nuremberg, page 135 — Christopher J. Dodd

Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the sophisticated deplore these formalities as 'empty,' 'meaningless,' or 'dishonest,' and scorn to use them. No matter how 'pure' their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best. — Robert A. Heinlein

I was wrong, you were right. I'm dumb, you're smart. I'm ugly, and you're a stone-cold fox. — Toooldforthis

He also began to suspect, since he was so much busier than anybody else, that he was the leader — Kurt Vonnegut

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. — James A. Baldwin

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal. — George Orwell

My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces. — Schuyler Fisk

The times do, in fact change. They change relentlessly. Inevitably. Inventively. And as they change, they set into bright relief not only outmoded honorifics and hunting jorns, but silver summoners and mother-of-pearl opera glasses and all manner of carefully crafted things that have outlived their usefulness.

Carefully crafted things that have outlived their usefulness, thought the Count. I wonder... — Amor Towles

If Lenin walked around the offices of a company like Yahoo or Intel or Cisco, he'd think communism had won. Everyone would be wearing the same clothes, have the same kind of office (or rather, cubicle) with the same furnishings, and address one another by their first names instead of by honorifics. Everything would seem exactly as he'd predicted, until he looked at their bank accounts. Oops. — Paul Graham

You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real. — John Green

If you embrace your dreams gently, you'll wake up in the morning as a satisfied human child. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Honorifics and meaningless ritual phrases of greeting, leave-taking, permission-asking, and false gratitude, please, thank you, you're welcome, goodbye, fossil relics of primitive hypocrisy - all were stumbling blocks to truthfulness between producer-consumers. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Throw in the towel right off the bat. Women argue in ways that aren't rational to men. — Nick Lachey