Noble Quotes

1309 Noble quotes by 838 unique authors

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate. — Philip Sidney
The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her… — Henry David Thoreau
Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of… — Frank Howard Clark
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter… — Adelaide Anne Procter
Filming this drama made me realise how noble the nursing profession really is -- from the selfless dedication to the care and love for patients.… — Rebecca Lim
For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth. — Alice Cary
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to… — Walter Lippmann
There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A noble man is led by woman's gentle words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love. — William Shakespeare
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat. — Mark Twain
To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity. — Mark Twain
And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families. — Mencius
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and… — Thomas Carlyle
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. — Walter Scott
Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs. — Romain Rolland
In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotes… — Daniel Handler
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It… — Jerome K. Jerome
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of… — Sivananda
The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself. — Charles William Eliot
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. — Seneca the Younger
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
My love's a noble madness. — John Dryden

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