Famous quotes containing the word noble:
“Hamlet. To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may
not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till a
find it stopping a bung-hole?
Horatio. Twere to consider too curiously to consider so.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happycommon clay, if you likeeating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you cant imagine dead. And then there are the othersthe noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.”
—Jean Anouilh (19101987)
“O, what a noble mind is here oerthrown!
The courtiers, soldiers, scholars,eye, tongue, sword,
Th expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mold of form,
Th observed of all observers, quite, quite down!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)