The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble… — Paul Conrad Copy Share Image
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy. — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame;… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The most important thing my grandfather taught me was that the most noble way to use your skills, intellect and energy is… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to… — John Keats Copy Share Image
No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature;… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong. — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser,… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Love to learn every noble soul without hesitation, without expectation and without discrimination. — Chanda Kaushik Copy Share Image
People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life... — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
