Noble Status

Famous quotes containing the words noble and/or status:

“The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)