Ignoble Quotes

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I consider that a most ignoble endeavor. The only way I would like to 'help' the great majority of people is the same way Carl… — Anton Szandor LaVey
My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly. — Franz Grillparzer
It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the… — Elif Safak
To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits… — A.C. Grayling
Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.... — Plato
The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I… — Fernando Pessoa
We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted… — Anthony Eden
For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your… — Sergei Rachmaninoff
Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. — William Shakespeare
The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of… — Louis Kronenberger
Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. — Alexander Pope
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion. — Joan Miro
We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we… — Theodore Roosevelt
If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of… — Theodore Roosevelt
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. — Alexander von Humboldt

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