Famous quotes containing the word noble:
“It’s impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I’ll sing you a new ballad, and I’ll warrant it first-rate,
Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate;
When they spent the public money at a bountiful old rate
On ev’ry mistress, pimp, and scamp, at ev’ry noble gate,
In the fine old English Tory times;”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1890)