Noble Quotes

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

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.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.