Nobility Quotes · Page 5

“for nobility is excellence of race.”

— Aristotle

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.

— Claudius Claudianus

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

— Moliere

To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.

— Thomas Paine

True nobility is exempt from fear.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

— Sophocles

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another’s need out of one’s fullness and plenty.”

— Howard Thurman

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

— James Anthony Froude

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

— Albert Camus

“K-I-N-G Jesus is busy in every moment! (Kind hearted -Integrous - Noble - Gracious)" ~ © gfp '42™”

— Gary Patton

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

— PZ Myers

Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.

— William Shakespeare

“Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.”

— George Hammond

“These gentlemen, although of the highest nobility,' thought Julien, 'are not in the least boring like the people who come to dine…

— Stendhal

There isnt anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.

— Vampoxxxx

We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of…

— Anonymous

Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for…

— Marianne Williamson

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly,…

— William Blackstone

I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two…

— John Lasseter

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le…

— Carlo Goldoni

I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and…

— Kevin Costner

After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is…

— Annie Oakley

“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a…

— William Jones

To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at…

— Noam Chomsky

Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is…

— Ernest Dimnet

Justice - there is an air of nobility about the word. It calls to mind other words like equity, fairness, and truth.…

— Lance B. Wickman

There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not…

— Karl Marx

Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see.…

— Arthur Rubinstein

Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse…

— Joseph P. Bradley

“If the human race has ever invented an institution more effective in the propagation of intellectual and ethical cripples than the nobility,…

— Daniel Polansky

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or…

— Henri Nouwen

Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by…

— Eric Berne

Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty…

— Ibn Hazm

“Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit of…

— Leo Tolstoy

No system can long command the loyalties of men and women which does not expect of them certain measures of discipline, and…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Shocked at this rebuke, Sarah took a step backward. “But I…I am the daughter of a marquess. I cannot marry either—” “You…

— Pamela Clare

But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the…

— Chauncey Depew