Noble Quotes

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

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.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

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

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

Through 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.

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.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

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.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.