Noble Quotes

1309 Noble quotes by 838 unique authors

How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company. — John Donne
hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals. — Ralph Bunche
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days. — John Milton
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble… — Helen Keller
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor — Arthur Conan Doyle
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. — George Santayana
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Often a noble face hides filthy ways. — Euripides
Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end. — Charles Baudelaire
Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise. — Charles Baudelaire
Noble fathers have noble children. — Euripides
God has put something noble and good into every heart his hand has created. So while living on earth we must always remember to learn… — Melanie Klein
I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or creating life for… — George W. Bush
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds… — Horace Mann
To generous souls every task is noble. — Euripides
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. — Gerrit Smith
Noble discontent is the path to heaven. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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