Quotes
Quotes about Nobility
And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly,
To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse
Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
No: by the names inscribed in History's page,
Names that are England's noblest heritage,
Names that shall live for yet unnumbered years
Shrined in our hearts with Cressy and Poictiers;
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.
If there be no nobility of descent, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent,--a character in them that bear rule so fine and high and pure that as men come within the circle of its influence they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the royalty of virtue.
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.
Nobility is the one only virtue.
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."
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
"My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you." - Iphicrates,
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.
We are the carriers of health and disease--either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety.
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, his is a base and ignoble creature.
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.
For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
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!
There are obligations to nobility. [Lat., Noblesse oblige.]
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
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.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
