Quotes About Noble

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.

Well, it doesn't sound particularly noble and knightly to say you've rescued the Chief Cook and Librarian, does it? And it has cut down on the number of interruptions. I used to get two or three knights a day, and now there's only about one a week. And the ones who do come are at least smart enough to figure out that I'm still a princess even if the dragons call me Chief Cook

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

but now men who could work preferred to beg, and the artists forgot that their calling was noble and became imitators instead of creators, charging exorbitant sums for the rubbish they churned out with one eye closed.

Through contact with the virtuous even the wicked get reformed, just as a base metal is transmuted by the touch of the philosopher's stone. On the other hand, if by mischance good men fall into evil company, they maintain their noble character like the gem on the hood of a serpent.

For although to give with grace Is the noblest act 'mongst men, To take back the gift again Is the basest of the base.

Het moest de Duivel zijn die het gereedschap om het goede te doen uitkoos. Hij nam daarvoor de nobele mensen die vrees konden kennen. Maar als de goeden konden doden noch vernietigen dan was het goede hulpeloos.

Today the theatre of doubting, of unease, of trouble, of alarm, seems truer than the theatre with a noble aim.

The project didn't deserve this; they were trying to achieve something noble and right with the starship. No piece-of-shit trendy-cause rebel outside the political process had the right to screw with that.

I happen to think Israel is in many ways a noble enterprise, worth defending and supporting, and that Israel's fashionable enemies in the West have allied themselves with some of the nastiest and most bigoted forces now loose in the world.