The Honourable

The prefix The Honourable or The Honorable (abbreviated to The Hon. or formerly The Hon'ble) is a style used before the names of certain classes of persons. It is considered an honorific styling.

Famous quotes containing the word honourable:

    “Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal
    savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.”
    —Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)