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:
“It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“Consider the China pride and stagnant self-complacency of mankind. This generation inclines a little to congratulate itself on being the last of an illustrious line; and in Boston and London and Paris and Rome, thinking of its long descent, it speaks of its progress in art and science and literature with satisfaction.... It is the good Adam contemplating his own virtue.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“An illustrious individual remarks that Mrs. [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton is the salt, Anna Dickinson the pepper, and Miss [Susan B.] Anthony the vinegar of the Female Suffrage movement. The very elements get the “white male” into a nice pickle.”
—Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. The Revolution (August 19, 1869)