There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of… — Maria Jane McIntosh Copy Share Image
“But, don’t you see, since we happened to have M. de Cambremer here, and he is a Marquis, while you are only… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“we regard the earldom as an important family honor. But my father is a good man precisely because he is a good… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not. I am the strong arm of… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“Davellon may be a village, but the Davellon House can be anything you make it. Nobility has to start somewhere. It might… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility. — Plato Copy Share Image
Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The people of today have no nobility. They do not even know what it means to be noble of heart. There is… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call… — Abu Rayhan al-Biruni Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most loved, one of… — Gregory Peck Copy Share Image
