Noble

Famous quotes containing the word noble:

    Hamlet. To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may
    not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till a
    find it stopping a bung-hole?
    Horatio. ‘Twere to consider too curiously to consider so.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    A frere ther was, a wantowne and a merye,
    A lymytour, a ful solempne man.
    In alle the ordres foure is noon that kan
    So muchel of daliaunce and fair langage.
    He hadde maad ful many a mariage
    Of yonge wommen at his owene cost.
    Unto his ordre he was a noble post.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    There’s no man may look upon her, no man,
    As when newly grown to be a woman,
    Tall and noble but with face and bosom
    Delicate in colour as apple blossom.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)