Noble

Famous quotes containing the word noble:

    The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
    —A.P. (Sir Alan Patrick)

    Heaven grant him now some noble nook,
    For, rest his soul! he’d rather be
    Genteelly damn’d beside a Duke,
    Than sav’d in vulgar company.
    Thomas Moore (1779–1852)

    Truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in any way; its use, noble as it is, has its limits.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)