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Noble Quotes - Page 23

Noble houskeepers neede no dores.

Noble houskeepers neede no dores.

George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.346

He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!

Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.84, Delphi Classics

This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

Franz Kafka (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)”, p.53, Franz Kafka

Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man of reason, doth grow continually by his generous thinking of it and remembering it.

Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

Ford Madox Ford (2011). “The Fifth Queen”, p.7, Vintage

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.104, VM eBooks

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

Mary Leadbeater, Edmund Burke, Melesina Chenevix St. George Trench, George Crabbe (1862). “The Leadbeater Papers: Unpublished letters of Edmund Burke, and the correspondence of Mrs. Richard Trench and Rev. George Crabbe”, p.126

One of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy.

"The unapologetic warrior". Interview with Tony Perry, www.latimes.com. August 22, 2004.

I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.

Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.134, Thomas Nelson Inc