A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.
Roger Ebert

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
Jean Racine

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
Friedrich Schiller

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Marcus Aurelius

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.
David Mallet

About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.
John Woolman

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.
Jean Froissart

All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.
Egon Schiele

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
William Ellery Channing

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.
James Martineau

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
Mark Crispin Miller

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
James M. Barrie

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
J. M. Barrie

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
Herbert Hoover

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
A. P. Herbert

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke