The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
People today, vampyres and humans alike, believe the earth is just a dead thing that they live on-that it is somehow wrong… — Anonymous 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
The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Earth’s nobility are soon forgotten. John Bunyan, the Bedford tinker, has outlived the whole crowd of those who were the nobility in… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no… — Calvin Coolidge 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
“The Highland way says it's who you say you love and who you serve, which is of worth. Not some title that… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable… — Anonymous 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
“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
We just can't let the Lord down. And if the day comes when we are the only women on earth who find… — Sheri L. Dew 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 both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“the human nature whose strong quality it brings out and reveals. To attribute any nobility to war itself is as much a… — Joseph E. Persico 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
Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“Wallace Worthington would have reminded Wilbur Larch of someone he might have met at the Channing-Peabodys’, where Dr. Larch went to perform… — John Irving Copy Share Image
This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
