Famous quotes containing the word noble:
“Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”
—C.C. (Charles Caleb)
“Its impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.”
—Sophocles (497406/5 B.C.)