Noble Quotes - Page 14

A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.

No noble man ever hated good wine.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

A sense of justice is a noble fancy.

He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.