If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
Alexander Smith

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.
Rocco DiSpirito

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.
John James Audubon

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.
Pete McCloskey

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
J. William Fulbright

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Madame de Stael

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
Henry David Thoreau

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.
Paul Conrad

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Herodotus

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
Olive Schreiner

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Francis Beaumont

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Dag Hammarskjold

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
Mencius

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
Plutarch

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
Lydia M. Child

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
Algernon H. Blackwood

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John Ruskin

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
Walter Lord

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.
Sophocles