Noble Quotes

1309 Noble quotes by 838 unique authors

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. — Robert Herrick
It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a… — Daniel Quinn
She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had… — Orson Scott Card
Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty. — Soren Kierkegaard
Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful Because… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Ah, my princess. Noble steed. How does the morning find you both? — Eoin Colfer
The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to… — Stephen Batchelor
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self… — Steven Pressfield
When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where… — Muriel Barbery
There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are… — Stephen Levine
It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting;… — Antonin Sertillanges
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it… — Albert Einstein
Yet, there was once a king worthy of that name. That king was Arthur. It is paramount disgrace of this evil generation that the name… — Stephen R. Lawhead
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with… — Anna Godbersen
Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; "Of course I love you, So let's… — Kurt Vonnegut
I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it. — Ayn Rand
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or… — Stendhal
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any… — Bill Bryson
The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since… — Martin Amis
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble. — Graham Greene
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character,… — Honore de Balzac
A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble. — Aristotle

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