Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
A man, without at least a pinch of femininity, will never be a gentleman. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
The nobility which exists within any cause is to be found not in any achievement, but instead within the struggle. — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Nobility means strength of character, a word of honor, immovability and mind over matter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center… — Jack H. Goaslind Copy Share Image
“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“Being related to the horse does not make the mule a noble mustang. – To those who believe that nobility is a… — Lamine Pearlheart Copy Share Image
“They were bound together by the things they’d done. Things the nobility could never comprehend being desperate enough to do” — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“The entrenched interests of the regional nobility prevented the proper functioning of a government built upon ethical practice. While high-minded scholars often… — Joan Stanley-Baker Copy Share Image
Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the… — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strenthen… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds.” — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“Shigure: "That's lovely. She’s so... how shall I say it? By putting it into words I'm afraid the nobility of it all… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was… — Charles Durning Copy Share Image
He squeezed Steve's shoulder possessively. "Oh, Zero. He is not you, I must admit. He does not have your bravery, your nobility,… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and… — Ralph Wiley Copy Share Image
