Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur C. Clarke

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

Angela Carter

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

Andre Braugher

If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.

Barbara Amiel

We listened to the slogans of the barbarians - and this is the core of the problem - we decided that what the Marxists were saying had a point.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings...

Jack Vance

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

Maurice de Vlaminck

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

Marwan Muasher

These are outlaws, these are terrorists, barbarians who don't really belong to any identity, any nationality.

Susan Sontag

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Tracy Brown

ODORS ARE ALWAYS OF QUESTIONABLE PARENTAGE AND NEVER OF NOBLE BIRTH.

Ben Jonson

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

Nisha Singhania

If they had a profession at all, it had to be a noble cause. Now, it is about glamour, money, and fame.

A. P. Herbert

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

Cat Deeley

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

Desiderius Erasmus

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

Charles Kingsley

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Blaise Pascal

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Tina Turner

Physical strength in a woman - thats what I am.