Noble Quotes

1309 Noble quotes by 838 unique authors

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the… — Friedrich Schiller
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants. — Thomas B. Macaulay
The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause. — Benjamin Disraeli
The noble temptation to see too much in everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. — Horace
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. — Horace
In high vengeance there is noble scorn. — George Eliot
Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No noble thing can be done without risks. — Michel de Montaigne
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble… — Martial
Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages… — Luc de Clapiers
Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man. — William Shakespeare
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to… — William Shakespeare
Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope. — William Shakespeare
Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together… — Eric Hoffer
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness… — Eric Hoffer
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in… — Eric Hoffer
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally… — Joseph Addison
Be noble in every thought And in every deed! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. — Samuel Johnson
John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a… — Robert Burns
True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it. — Michelangelo
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible? — Adelaide Anne Procter

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