Ignoble Quote by Jean Cocteau Download Open image “Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.” — Jean Cocteau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ignoble Noble Return Rewards Wave
The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Give with a truly glad heart, for the sole purpose of the good it will do, and whatever you give shall return to you,… — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image
Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat. — Charles Forbes Rene de Montalembert Copy Share Image
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) There’s no such thing as a gift. If I… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau 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
