Famous quotes containing the word noble:
“War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleons proclamations.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (17831842)
“The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass. Armenian refugees, Jewish refugees, refugees from Franco Spain. But a political leader or artistic figure is an exile. Thomas Mann yesterday, Theodorakis today. Exile is the noble and dignified term, while a refugee is more hapless.... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness.”
—Mary McCarthy (19121989)
“Yet therein now doth lodge a noble peer,
Great Englands glory and the worlds wide wonder,
Whose dreadful name late through all Spain did thunder,”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?1599)