Nobility Quotes · Page 16

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned,…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all…

— John Frederick Boyes

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

— Imelda Marcos

And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the…

— John Donne

This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable…

— Anonymous

Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace,…

— Cesare Pavese

What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

— Horace

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the…

— James T. Walsh

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

— Portia de Rossi

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

— Philip James Bailey

Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad…

— David Gemmell

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

— Edward Hirsch

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

— William Shakespeare

Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with…

— Martin Luther King Jr

If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must…

— Hugh B. Brown

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

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

— John D. MacDonald

Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

— Honore de Balzac

Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of…

— Anonymous

The nobility of the human spirit grows harder for me to believe in. War, zealotry, greed, malls, narcissism. I see a backhanded…

— Mary Roach

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

— Josh Billings

Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.

— William Hazlitt