Best 491 quotes in «noble quotes» category

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.

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

I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer needed. Cars like the Wills Sainte Claire or the Duesenberg.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because there's nowhere to "escape" to on the planet in pursuit of a hermetic pastoralism or a redemptive wilderness sublime.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish.

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.

It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.

I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.

I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.

I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.

It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people, and the power-oriented people are the ones that cause all the world's trouble.

It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking?

I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.

I think Ross Noble is the only person that I've seen really storm a stand-up slot at a festival, and that was when he led 3,000 people on a conga out of the tent and across the entire site to a vegetarian food truck.

It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not the equal of men (I never care to claim such equality), but their equivalents; more than their equivalents in a moral sense.

It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

It is not “just beer,” it is a noble and ancient beverage which, like wine, food and television advertising, can be extraordinarily good or unmercifully bad.

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

It's true that the skills required to be a conman are the same as those required for being an actor. Though those skills are in the service of something a bit more noble with acting, I hope.

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

It's a principle that anything our leaders do is for noble reasons. It may be mistaken, it may be ugly, but basically noble. And if you bring in normal moderate, conservative, strategic, economic objectives you threatening that principle.

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.