Noble Quotes - Page 11

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross.

Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept.

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed.

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.