Noble

Famous quotes containing the word noble:

    Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    A frere ther was, a wantowne and a merye,
    A lymytour, a ful solempne man.
    In alle the ordres foure is noon that kan
    So muchel of daliaunce and fair langage.
    He hadde maad ful many a mariage
    Of yonge wommen at his owene cost.
    Unto his ordre he was a noble post.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    She might, so noble from head
    To great shapely knees
    The long flowing line,
    Have walked to the altar
    Through the holy images
    At Pallas Athena’s side....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)