Famous quotes containing the word noble:
“Lady is safely delivered of a son, to the great joy of that noble family. The expression, of a womans having brought her husband a son, seems to be a proper and cautious one; for it is never said, from whence.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“Its impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.”
—Sophocles (497406/5 B.C.)