Noble Quotes
- Page 3Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.
Thomas Malory
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Steve Jobs
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
Isaac D'Israeli
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Dag Hammarskjold
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
William Ellery Channing
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke
Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
Henry Cabot Lodge
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.
James Martineau
No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.
Orel Hershiser
To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.
Lucy Stone
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
Gerrit Smith
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Herodotus
I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.
Sylvester Stallone
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Martin Luther
Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.
Joaquin Phoenix
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
Stephen Leacock