(120 quotes found)
“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed”
Blaise Pascal
“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”
William Shakespeare
“I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing.”
Winston Churchill
“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!”
“Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song”
Charles Kingsley
“We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”
Charles Darwin
“The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.”
Wendell Phillips
“To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.”
Mencius
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