Quotes about Nobility

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. Votes: 7

Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword. Votes: 6

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. Votes: 5

Virtue is the truest nobility. Votes: 4

True nobility is exempt from fear. Votes: 4

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. Votes: 4

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. Votes: 4

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. Votes: 4

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. Votes: 4

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. Votes: 4

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. Votes: 4

Nobility is not only in forgiveness. Votes: 3

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry. Votes: 3

Nobility should be elective, not hereditary. Votes: 3

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem Votes: 3

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem. Votes: 3

Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors. Votes: 3

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. Votes: 3

Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings. Votes: 3

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely possessed, The husband scorn'd, wife sham'd, and babes unbless'd. Votes: 3

Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the end of the day, and you’re still alone. Votes: 3

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.' Votes: 3

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two. Votes: 3

Attain complete emptiness,Hold fast to stillness.Understanding the ordinary: Mind opens.Mind opening leads to compassion,Compassion to nobility,Nobility to heavenliness,Heavenliness to TAO. TAO endures. Your body dies.There is no danger. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving worship and power to a false god? The prince? Or Banjiku? Votes: 3

Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source, than at its termination. Votes: 3

I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions. Votes: 3

Virtue alone is true nobility. Votes: 2

True nobility is being superior to your former self. Votes: 2

Be noble in every thought And in every deed! Votes: 2

The army is the true nobility of our country. Votes: 2

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. Votes: 2

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? Votes: 2

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance. Votes: 2

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease. Votes: 2

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility. Votes: 2

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature! Votes: 2

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. Votes: 2

Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility. Votes: 2

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. Votes: 2

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. Votes: 2

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. Votes: 2

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. Votes: 2

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives. Votes: 2

Ever since I was a kid, I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend, and, you know, the notion of nobility in battle and the - the notion of chivalry. Votes: 2

The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood. Votes: 2

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something. Votes: 2

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense. Votes: 2

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. Votes: 2

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all. Votes: 2

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened. Votes: 2

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. Votes: 2

To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself. Votes: 2

Make a career of humanity... It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man... You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in. Votes: 2

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it. Votes: 2

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor. Votes: 1

One finds nobility in the oddest places. Votes: 1

Modesty is a noble expression of honesty Votes: 1

I am a Count, Not a Saint. Votes: 1

I am only a peasant by position, not by nature! Votes: 1

Without love, we would not comprehend compassion.- Govinda Shauri Votes: 1

When your cause is noble, you shall never know fear. Votes: 1

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man. Votes: 1

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion. Votes: 1

God himself had sent me away. I was truly now among the damned. Votes: 1

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me. Votes: 1

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard. Votes: 1

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. Votes: 1

My life was going exactly where I wanted it to until the Devil showed up. Votes: 1

Yet Glory drags in chains behind her dazzling carthe obscure no less than the noble. Votes: 1

if you keep a distance to get a respect, keep a distance to keep the respect Votes: 1

Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action. Votes: 1

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. Votes: 1

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy Votes: 1

The honourable are moved, by the nobility of another's sacrifice. The wicked are moved only by causing it. Votes: 1

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others. Votes: 1

No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble. Votes: 1

Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me. Votes: 1

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble. Votes: 1

And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds. Votes: 1

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. Votes: 1

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. Votes: 1

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him. Votes: 1

I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless. Votes: 1

Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?...He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage... Votes: 1

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. Votes: 1

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion. Votes: 1

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made. Votes: 1

The black of the ocean waves was the color of the sorrow in my breast, a sorrow that was never far away and always visible. Votes: 1

Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers. Votes: 1

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. Votes: 1

Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company. Votes: 1

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. Votes: 1

Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me? Votes: 1

If the human race has ever invented an institution more effective in the propagation of intellectual and ethical cripples than the nobility, I have yet to stumble across it. Votes: 1

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted. Votes: 1

A truly honorable person, would never convince another to stray, from their personal pursuit of honor. No, only one lacking this noble quality would try to justify and market, an existence without it. Votes: 1

Any noble cause will encounter its share of setbacks. The strength of that cause is measured in how the men who fight for it respond. We refuse to give up, which is why we will prevail eventually. Votes: 1

Platitude or not, the crowd erupted into applause, and by acclamation, Kuni Garu became the Duke of Zudi. A few pointed out that titles of nobility really couldn't be handed out in such a democratic fashion, but these killjoys were ignored. Votes: 1

A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting. Votes: 1

Alyssa tried to lift her chin. She was going to do the one thing she loved again- something that reminded her of her mother; something dear to her. So what if she felt this undeniable attraction toward the dark-haired man. Correction. Earl.So what, indeed. Votes: 1

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts; as was Hepzibah of this native inapplicability, so to speak, of the Pyncheons to any useful purpose. Votes: 1

Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the noblest work of an Englishman. Votes: 1

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one. Votes: 1

To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long. Votes: 1

There's no nobility in poverty. Votes: 0

Idleness is an appendix to nobility. Votes: 0

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy. Votes: 0

There is no nobility with bad manners. Votes: 0

Virtue is the first title of nobility. Votes: 0

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves. Votes: 0

Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood. Votes: 0

There's nobility in hard work, traditional values. Votes: 0

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art. Votes: 0

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority. Votes: 0

Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character. Votes: 0

The highest nobility lies in taming your own mind. Votes: 0

There is a nobility in the world of manners. Votes: 0

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage. Votes: 0

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself. Votes: 0

A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations. Votes: 0

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries. Votes: 0

There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win. Votes: 0

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason. Votes: 0

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility. Votes: 0

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature. Votes: 0

He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility. Votes: 0

In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it. Votes: 0

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth. Votes: 0

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.] Votes: 0

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest. Votes: 0

My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice. Votes: 0

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature. Votes: 0

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her. Votes: 0

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery. Votes: 0

Waris ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing. Votes: 0

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility. Votes: 0

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity. Votes: 0

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. Votes: 0

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves. Votes: 0

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? Votes: 0

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. Votes: 0

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be. Votes: 0

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. Votes: 0

Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children. Votes: 0

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. Votes: 0

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express. Votes: 0

Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude. Votes: 0

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much. Votes: 0

There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again! Votes: 0

We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned. Votes: 0

I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do. Votes: 0

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man. Votes: 0

The nobility which exists within any cause is to be found not in any achievement, but instead within the struggle. Votes: 0

In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other. Votes: 0

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. Votes: 0

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service. Votes: 0

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned. Votes: 0

When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument. Votes: 0

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king Votes: 0

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them. Votes: 0

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit. Votes: 0

And nobility will not be able to help you with your love; Love does not know how to cede to ancestral images. Votes: 0

Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility. Votes: 0

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry. Votes: 0

Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle. Votes: 0

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion. Votes: 0

I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral. Votes: 0

I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral. Votes: 0

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record. Votes: 0

If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors. Votes: 0

the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility. Votes: 0

We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety Votes: 0

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence, Votes: 0

There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? Votes: 0

It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character. Votes: 0

Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others. Votes: 0

Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their ancestors that gives them noble blood. Votes: 0

She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men. Votes: 0

God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior. Votes: 0

I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Votes: 0

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men. Votes: 0

An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible. Votes: 0

Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind. Votes: 0

Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man can and ought to be a hero. Votes: 0

In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful. Votes: 0

To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you. Votes: 0

Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art. Votes: 0

What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages. Votes: 0

I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit of nobility - they wish they could be good. Votes: 0

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable~? Votes: 0

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable? Votes: 0

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent. Votes: 0

Never complain, about the number of hours you have put in, to do a job, Your nobility must estimate how much of you Was put into each hour of your daily work Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Je sais la douleur est la noblesse unique O u' ne mordront jamais la terre et les enfers. I know that pain is the one nobility upon which Hell itself cannot encroach. Votes: 0

The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom...have been thrust out of all public employment...a race of merchants, and manufacturers and bankers and loan-jobbers and contractors have usurped their place. Votes: 0

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him. Votes: 0

There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive. Votes: 0

Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself. Votes: 0

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. Votes: 0

The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility. Votes: 0

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince Votes: 0

The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection. Votes: 0

Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility of love is considered. It's a land of higher ideals. Votes: 0

It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it. Votes: 0

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments. Votes: 0

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery. Votes: 0

A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar. Votes: 0

Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have. Votes: 0

Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have. Votes: 0

I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class. Votes: 0

Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, "Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!" Votes: 0