Noble Quotes

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

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.

How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

My love's a noble madness.

One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.

The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!

Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.

I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.

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.

Noble spirits are heterodox.

Ego is vital but not noble.

The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from elegance.

Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.

Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.

Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

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

By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health.

Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death.

-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid.

The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just nonfighting.

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.

Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their ancestors that gives them noble blood.

He's a pit bull," Adam said. "I know some really nice pit bulls." "He's the kind of pit that makes the evening news. Gansey's trying to restrain him." "How noble.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

Comedy is a noble art.

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit.

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.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.