Noble Person

Famous quotes containing the words noble and/or person:

    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)

    Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
    Jane Austen (1775–1817)