Quotes About Noble

Dickens had, with all his genius, the narrow short sight of his day and class, sentimental tears for poverty but no vision to remove it except by inviting everybody to be as noble a fellow as himself. War

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

How could anyone believe that a political system could provide all of the goods and services a people needed without cost? A daily gratification that would eliminate greed, selfishness, miserliness, and infidelity. A place where man could become noble, strong, and courageous. Crime, violence, and social ills would vanish. It's absurd. The experiment called the Soviet Union only proved that none of that is possible.

I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.

Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.

Love is a lock that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.

I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character.

Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross.

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.

It is necessary to be strong in the face of death, because death is intrinsic to life. It is for this reason that I tell my students: aim to be the person at your father's funeral that everyone, in their grief and misery, can rely on. There's a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity.

There's a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.

The noble savage Rousseau described, however, was an ideal—an abstraction, archetypal and religious—and not the flesh-and-blood reality he supposed.

La doctrina cristiana elevó el alma individual, colocando al esclavo, al dueño, al plebeyo y al noble en una posición de igualdad metafísica, convirtiéndolos en iguales ante Dios y la ley.

The heart, said to be man's noblest organ, has the same shape as the penis, commonly supposed the most ignoble; the symbolism is not inappropriate, because the love which comes from the heart soon extends to the organ which it resembles.

We want the happiness of the Philippines, but we want to obtain it through noble and just means. If I have to commit villainy to make her happy, I would refuse to do so, because I am sure that what is built on sand sooner or later would tumble down.

Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence itis the noblest cry that has ever resounded on this planet.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

Whoe'er is brave and virtuous, is a Roman.