Noble Quotes

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.

Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.

Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless

Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.

The courageous struggle for a noble cause should be considered success itself.

Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember.

The noble must make humility his root.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

No matter if the path is tough, and your nights are long,So long as your cause is noble and your mind is strong.

Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of inner necessity.

Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero.

Only power can get people into a position where they may be noble.

To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.

For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.

A noble heart is a window to find an open mind.

Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.