Nobility Quotes
The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.
If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.
My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice.
If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors.
Super-heroes were created to represent the best in all of us. We should aspire to match their nobility, not their ability to shoot big chrome guns.
Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
You think that commanding an army grants you nobility? Nobility comes from fighting besides your soldiers, not kidnapping a woman to cheat your way out of battle.
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.
The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety
There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.
If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair . . . Yet at the same time you shake off your past, fight reality, and never lose your nobility.
He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.
It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much of our nobility and grace, and much of our pleasure.
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.
Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.
Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.