To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
Those who are most pious and noble tend to be the least tolerant.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
If God exists, then we are spiritual beings, and we have souls, and we are noble inherently.
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
Ross Noble at the Leicester De Montfort Hall on his Randomist tour - it's the only time I've hurt from laughing at a standup comedian.
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.
I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.
A vocation is a noble thing and not to be subverted by the whims of politicians.
