Famous quotes containing the words polish and/or nobility:
“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
“The army is the true nobility of our country.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)