Best 491 quotes in «noble quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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

I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.

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

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.

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

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 teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

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

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

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

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

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

I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.

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!

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.

Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.

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.

Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts or our passions. If we should be disappointed, we are still no worse than the rest of our fellow-mortals; and if we succeed in our expectations we are eternally happy.

Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.