Quotes of Noble - somelinesforyou

“ Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. ”

- Bible

“ Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. ”

- Emma Goldman

“ The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand. ”

- Noel Coward

“ To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The prince of darkness is a gentleman. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. ”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“ The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. ”

- Bible

“ The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. ”

- Bible

“ A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread! ”

- Anatole France

“ Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea. ”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“ Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my mettle Before so noble and so great a figure Be stamped upon it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The Lord called me to plant a church. ”

- Bobby L. Rush

“ And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. ”

- Bible

“ And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD. ”

- Bible

“ From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step. ”

- Napoleon

“ Madame, bear in mind That princes govern all things — save the wind. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. ”

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“ Tyranny over a man is not tyranny: it is rebellion, for man is royal. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ Suffering is as God's letter. Open it and read it. Many a one will find that he is titled, or that there is an inheritance laid up for him. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ A royal train, believe me. - King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined. ”

- Susannah Centlivre

“ That man is deceived who thinks it slavery to live under an excellent prince. Never does liberty appear in a more gracious form than under a pious king. ”

- Claudian

“ O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far. ”

- William Shakespeare
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