Famous quotes containing the words polish and/or nobility:
“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
“These hands do lack nobility that they strike
A meaner than myself.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)