Ignoble Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Download Open image “Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ignoble Poverty Relative
Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust. — Megan Lee Copy Share Image
Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I did not fall into love - I rose into love. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. — Plato Copy Share Image
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image