Noble Sentiments Quotes

#1. It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

Andre Gide

#2. History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

Vincent Massey

#3. Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

Victor Hugo

#4. Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, .. So how can one explain that we are today investigating an action our country should be proud of?.

Alain Juppe

#5. Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.

J. William Fulbright

#6. Leo,you are a riot of color in my grey world". Shade Lewis to Leo Cutler (Drift)

Michael Dean

#7. The crisis is past and all is well, the sheep returns to the fold. We're all sheep who have strayed at times. Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning, we've cried. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts, we've shouted to ourselves.

Ray Bradbury

#8. Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

David Allan Coe

#9. Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.

Maria Montessori

#10. Alas, I soon grew disillusioned, concluding that economics was largely a form of intellectual prostitution where you got rewarded for saying what the powers that be wanted to hear. Whatever

Max Tegmark

#11. Alcohol is not the answer to all questions

Swami Vivekananda

#12. He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

George Sand

#13. Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick,
Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury
Do I take part.

William Shakespeare

#14. But I must admit that my motives were no entirely noble; there were in me at least some elements of the anger and hurt vanity that characterize a spurned lover, and these unworthy sentiments helped me to keep my distance.

Mohsin Hamid

#15. He always had to act in an obnoxiously idiosyncratic way.

Heather O'Neill

#16. It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#17. In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.

Lester R. Brown

#18. You want the world to be perfect, Nedril - and that's a noble goal. But the world isn't perfect. It's people like me who give the world the chance to try another day for virtue.

Jennifer McKeithen

#19. It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself.

Jocelyn Murray

#20. No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.

William James

#21. Let the pulpit resound with the doctrine and sentiments of religious liberty. Let us hear of the dignity of man's nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God ... Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes and parliaments.

John Adams

#22. It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.

Demosthenes

#23. We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

Abraham Joshua Heschel