Ignoble Quotes

Ignoble Quote of the day

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Confusion is not an ignoble condition

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths.

Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted to perish by degrees.

The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

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

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

I spent an awful lot of time with Hemingway. And Hemingway had a remarkable ability to reach very noble goals through sometimes ignoble means.

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and just as ignoble as anybody else.

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.

If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!