Episodes Quote by Phyllis Bentley

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

— Douglas Adams

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

— Gustave Flaubert

'There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is beingsuperior to your former self; because life isnt about finding…

— Anonymous

The noble soul reveres itself

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When you start living under the shadow of somebody, you lose your own personality and your own passions.”

— Balroop Singh

“But these were days of self-fulfillment, where settling for something that was not quite your first choice of a life seemed weak-willed and ignoble.…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance—nothing more," says the twentieth-century philosopher-essayist Walter Benjamin.…

— Rebecca Solnit

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was…

— Franz Grillparzer

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

— Adelaide Anne Procter

“When we pass over into how a knight thinks, how a heroine behaves, and how an evildoer can regret or deny wrongdoing, we never…

— Maryanne Wolf

“The outcome of my cumulative life’s work is still undetermined. Chance, fate, attitude, aptitude, and preparedness to pursue new opportunities will regulate my final…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's…

— David Gray