Noble Quotes - Page 21

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

... they are structures that we build every time we engage in a thought that's just a little bit higher than a thought we had a moment before, or an activity that's just a little bit more noble than the activity we engaged in a moment before.

Ego is vital but not noble.

Noble spirits are heterodox.

Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.

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.

I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.

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

Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!”

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

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

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.

In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are young. ...Instances of such who in a weak timorous mind, have borne, all their whole lives through, the effects of a fright when they were young, are every where to be seen, and therefore as much as may be to be prevented.

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

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

My love's a noble madness.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.