Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. [ Gray ]

Existence may be borne, and the deep root
Of life and sufferance make its firm abode
In bare and desolate bosoms: mute
The camel labors with the heaviest load.
And the wolf dies in silence: Not bestowed
In vain should such examples be; if they.
Things of ignoble or of savage mood,
Endure and shrink not, we of nobler clay
May temper it to bear - it is but for a day. [ Byron ]

Poverty is relative, and, therefore, not ignoble. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

He is ignoble that disgraces his brave ancestors by a vicious life. [ Proverb ]

'Tis but a base ignoble mind that mounts no higher than a bird can soar. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is but a base, ignoble mind that mounts no higher than a bird can soar. [ William Shakespeare ]

Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, is emulation in the learned or brave. [ Pope ]

Literature, when noble, is not easy; only when ignoble. It too is a quarrel and internecine duel with the whole world of darkness that lies without one and within one; - rather a hard fight at times. [ Carlyle ]

If as much care were taken to perpetuate a race of fine men as is done to prevent the mixture of ignoble blood in horses and dogs, the genealogy of every one would be written on his face and displayed in his manners. [ Voltaire ]

As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite - variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite - energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not. [ Ruskin ]