Noble

Famous quotes containing the word noble:

    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)

    That which in mean men we entitle patience
    Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Lovers of horses and of women, shall
    From marble of a broken sepulchre
    Or dark betwixt the polecat and the owl,
    Or any rich, dark nothing disinter
    The workman, noble and saint, and all things run
    On that fashionable gyre again.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)