Max Bialystock: You're an accountant! You're in a noble profession! The word "count" is part of your title!
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.
Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.
In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single great event which has not promoted equality of condition. The Crusades and the English wars decimated the nobles and divided their possessions: the muni...
But virtue, by the bare statement of its actions, can so affect men's minds as to create at once both admiration of the things done and desire to imitate the doers of them. The goods of fortune we would possess and would enjoy; those of virtue we lon...
These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world: Long life is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world. Beauty is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world. Happiness ...
I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.
...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...
Until the thirst for power parched his throat, he was a fearless and noble lord.
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.
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.
The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love.
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.
Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully.
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others.
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
