Accidents Quote by Carlo Goldoni

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili…

— Carlo Goldoni

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

— Honore de Balzac

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in…

— Lillian Hellman

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

— Tacitus

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their ancestors that…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

— Henry David Thoreau

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

— Gautama Buddha

Noble fathers have noble children.

— Euripides

Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.

— Baruch Spinoza