High Nobility

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or nobility:

“How tall the buildings were as I began
To live, and how high the rain that battered them!”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. Its very nobility makes the results of its breakdown doubly horrifying, and it breaks down, as it always will, not by some external agency but because it cannot work.”
—Kingsley Amis (1922–1995)