Quotes About Nobly

The heroic efforts and successes of the Reformers on the Continent, in the presence of Papal bulls and inquisitions, were a trumpet call to independence to the people of this priest-cursed land; and many responded right nobly, ready to stand amid the faggots at the stake rather than bear the iron heel that bruised them.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

One scandal sheet called him a child of Lucifer while the quality press seemed to think him a rakishly charming fellow who had nobly chosen to go mutely to the gallows rather than excite further scandal by breaking his silence.

Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; For then both parties nobly are subdu'd, And neither party loser." (William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part Two, Act IV, Scene 2, from the journals of May Dodd)

Oh, come now, money shamefully made from trade fills the same holes in the treasury as the kind nobly wrung from the misery of the peasantry.

It was most gracefully done: But see, Lucy, the example of a good and generous man can sometimes alter natures; and covetous men, I have heard it observed, when their hearts are open'd, often act nobly.

We do not doubt the outcome," he said. "The duty of peace is burdensome. It is a duty many generations of Americans have chosen as their own. It is a duty many other young men have borne as you bear it now. In the discharge of that duty, none have honored themselves—none have honored their nation—so nobly, or so bravely, as the United States Marines.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

She was coming to look on men and women as fellow-survivors: well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had contained, assimilated, or put to use their own destruction. Of those who had endured the worst, not all behaved nobly or consistently. but all, involuntarily, became part of some deeper assertion of life.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

They had built strong and piled high – based as it was on such appearances – their conviction that, thanks to her native complacencies of so many sorts, she would always, quite to the end and through and through, take them as nobly sparing her. Amerigo

Don't you want to die nobly for a just cause? I'd much rather live quietly for one.

the human potential movement, as it encourages us to be undeterred by our current life conditions, to nobly strive toward the possibilities of an abundant and flourishing life, no matter what evidence we might be experiencing to the contrary.

Lifted, by his fantasy, into a high interior world, he scored off briefly and entirely all the grimy smudges of life: he existed nobly in a heroic world with lovely and virtuous creatures.

The UDC's monument campaigns were always supported by a narrative that Confederate veterans fought nobly and that defeat did not erase the justness of their cause.

Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.

One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.