(142 quotes found)
“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”
William Shakespeare
“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed”
Blaise Pascal
“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!”
“I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing.”
Winston Churchill
“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
“Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy”
W. R. Inge
“It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.”
Mencius
“When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman”
Jean de la Bruyere
“All noble things are as difficult as they are rare”
Baruch Spinoza
