Nobility Quotes · Page 7

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of…

— Edward Hirsch

“Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.”

— Suzy Kassem

“Man or woman…It doesn't matter! One of strength…And nobility…Is always a prince.”

— Be-Papas

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

— Emanuel Ax

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

— Nicolas Chamfort

Gateway to progress: Strong mind, sweetness of speech, and noble thoughts.

— Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathiyar

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

— Portia de Rossi

“Nobility is only in the negation of existence, in a smile that surveys annihilated landscapes.”

— Emil Cioran

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated…

— Agnes Repplier

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of…

— James Gates Percival

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have…

— Benito Mussolini

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nothing belongs to us,' Mrs. Tynte-Irvine would say in her rarefied English-Scottish accent that indicated a bygone elegance and nobility. 'We're only…

— Eric Motley

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

— Pietro Metastasio

The right, like Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbauggh, use women and the black man and the Hispanic immigrant and the gay man…

— Janeane Garofalo

I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not." [...] "I am the strong arm…

— Brent Weeks

The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help." I was too flummoxed to tell him I…

— Tamora Pierce

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We…

— Dorothy Day

Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do…

— Walt Kelly

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just…

— Marianne Williamson

I've had such an odd career. I always wanted to be a great actor. I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn - ish…

— Sally Field

Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

— William Wordsworth

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

— Homer

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

— James Russell Lowell

“Remember, nobility knows no race or station. Always judge a man by his heart and actions.”

— Lorna Seilstad

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

— Bantu Holomisa

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

— Georges Bataille

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

— William Shakespeare

“The highest evidence of nobility in a Christian is self-control. We”

— Ellen G. White

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.”

— Anne Carson

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

— Eugene O'Neill

Give little to somebody,make somebody a member of nobility by chinedum samuel

— Chinedum Samuel

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— T.H. White

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson