Illustrious may refer to:
- HMS Illustrious, five ships in the Royal Navy
- Illustrious (album), a 2008 hip hop album by Big Noyd
- Illustrious class aircraft carrier, a class of aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy
- Mari Illustrious Makinami, fictional character of Rebuild of Evangelion
Famous quotes containing the word illustrious:
“Let me approach at least, and touch thy hand.
[Samson:] Not for thy life, lest fierce remembrance wake
My sudden rage to tear thee joint by joint.
At distance I forgive thee, go with that;
Bewail thy falsehood, and the pious works
It hath brought forth to make thee memorable
Among illustrious women, faithful wives:
Cherish thy hast’n’d widowhood with the gold
Of Matrimonial treason: so farewel.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on “The Survival of the Fittest.” These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)