Famous quotes containing the word noble:
“O what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It’s impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf,
That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte.
Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte,
And this figure he added eek therto,
That if gold ruste, what shal iren do?”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)