Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people’s lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

It made her want to stand up next to him and fight. Fight to stay alive long enough to live out her life next to him. Fight for the only thing she knew that was...

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the “gai saber,” to whom...

There are just two things that can make you famous.. being noble or notorious.

I had forgotten that you are only a common boy. How should you understand reasons of the State? You must learn, child, that what would be wrong for you or for any of the common...

Many pride themselves, staking claim to the noble virtue that is loyalty. However, many resolve to give their allegiance to nothing. How can one demand loyalty, if one stands by nothing, nor commits to the...

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right –especially when one is right.

No despotism, no privileged monopolies, no police societies, no divine rights of the emirs or feudal landlords or shady priests and sheikhs. All had the same equal footing—the rich and the poor, the noble and...

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Avarice is opposed to nobility.It believes that by robbing many of all they have, that it (greed) is cloaked in the nobility that is the birthmark of the people.