Famous quotes containing the word noble:
“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”
—C.C. (Charles Caleb)
“Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“Rereading this novel today, replaying the moves of its plot, I feel rather like Anderssen fondly recalling his sacrifice of both Rooks to the unfortunate and noble Kieseritsky—who is doomed to accept it over and over again through an infinity of textbooks, with a question mark for monument.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)