Full Idea
Honour is felt to depend more on those who confer than on him who receives it.
Gist of Idea
Honour depends too much on the person who awards it
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1095b22)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.68
A Reaction
That presumably means that honour is not only highly relative (much more so than a society's other virtues), but that the persons awarding the honours are highly biased. See the absurd UK House of Lords.