Honours
- 1976 : Order of Diplomatic Service Merit, 1st class (South Korea)
- 1977 : Order of Brilliant Star, Grand Cordon (Republic of China)
- 1978 : Order of the Sacred Treasure, 1st class, Grand Cordon (Japan)
- 1980 : Order of the Golden Heart (Philippines)
- 1987 : Order of the Rising Sun, 1st Class, Grand Cordon (Japan)
- 1989 : Order of the White Elephant, Knight Grand Cross (Thailand)
- 1993 : Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Commandeur (France)
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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)
“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)
“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.”
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