Famous quotes containing the word noble:
“I’m not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)
“It’s impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy—common clay, if you like—eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can’t imagine dead. And then there are the others—the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.”
—Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)