Famous quotes containing the words noble and/or person:
“Rereading this novel today, replaying the moves of its plot, I feel rather like Anderssen fondly recalling his sacrifice of both Rooks to the unfortunate and noble Kieseritsky—who is doomed to accept it over and over again through an infinity of textbooks, with a question mark for monument.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Each person sweeps the snow before his own door, and never minds the frost on another family’s roof.”
—Chinese proverb.