Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors. Votes: 3
Mary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanLife ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. Votes: 3
Rebecca WestThe German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility. Votes: 2
Alfred RosenbergThe nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. Votes: 2
Jean RostandEveryone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility. Votes: 2
Iyanla VanzantI was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. Votes: 2
Imelda MarcosSelflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man. Votes: 1
Suzy KassemA generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. Votes: 1
George OrwellYet Glory drags in chains behind her dazzling carthe obscure no less than the noble. Votes: 1
Horaceif you keep a distance to get a respect, keep a distance to keep the respect Votes: 1
Ernest Agyemang YeboahLaws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action. Votes: 1
George HammondWe should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. Votes: 1
Philip James BaileyIf there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy Votes: 1
BoethiusNo duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble. Votes: 1
Idries ShahWell, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me. Votes: 1
Jack LondonTo do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble. Votes: 1
Mark TwainYou can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. Votes: 1
Malcolm ForbesYou can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. Votes: 1
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless. Votes: 1
Barbara T. CernyA man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature. Votes: 0
Nicolas ChamfortHe who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility. Votes: 0
Seneca the ElderIn other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it. Votes: 0
Frances Xavier CabriniWe hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth. Votes: 0
J. Robert OppenheimerVirtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.] Votes: 0
JuvenalThe warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest. Votes: 0
Georges BatailleMy favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice. Votes: 0
Roger EbertFriendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery. Votes: 0
Steven JamesWaris ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing. Votes: 0
Dana Kramer-RollsBase men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareWe need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves. Votes: 0
Eugene O'NeillThe first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroWe are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned. Votes: 0
PZ MyersI always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do. Votes: 0
Richie SamboraEven in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king Votes: 0
Ludwig van Beethoven