Best 491 quotes in «noble quotes» category

Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than any place else in the world.

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

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.

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.

I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon)

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions, quite apart from any personal interest or political ideology. My words are not those of a foe or an opponent. I am interested only in helping those who are in thrall to an individualistic, indifferent and self-centred mentality to be freed from those unworthy chains and to attain a way of living and thinking which is more humane, noble and fruitful, and which will bring dignity to their presence on this earth.

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to ... turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

If the world is ever conquered for our Lord, it is not by ministers, nor by office-bearers, nor by the great, and noble and mighty, but by every member of Christ's body being a working member; doing his work; filling his own sphere; holding his own post; and saying to Jesus, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?

If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.

If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture... “If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things.

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.

If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.

If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.

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.

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 have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.

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

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 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.