Famous quotes containing the word noble:
“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”
—C.C. (Charles Caleb)
“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)
“Lord Bateman was a noble lord,
A noble lord of high degree,”
—Unknown. Young Beichan (l. 1–2)