Honours
Guthrie's honours and decorations include:
| Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) | 1994 | |
| Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) | 1990 | |
| Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) | ||
| Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) | 1980 | |
| Officer of the Order of St John | ||
| General Service Medal (1962) | ||
| Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal | 1977 | |
| Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal | 2002 | |
| Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal | 2012 | |
| Officer of the Legion of Merit | (United States) |
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Famous quotes containing the word honours:
“Come hither, all ye empty things,
Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
Who float upon the tide of state,
Come hither, and behold your fate.
Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
How very mean a thing’s a Duke;
From all his ill-got honours flung,
Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelist honours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)