Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children. — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
“War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.” — Dana Kramer-Rolls Copy Share Image
“Men are not angels,” Akhmar affirmed. “And so men have the chance to be noble, in a way that angels cannot.” — J. Leigh Bralick Copy Share Image
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him. — Socrates Copy Share Image
All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another’s need out of one’s fullness and plenty.” — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
“Therefore, O my brothers, is a new nobility needed: to oppose all mob-rule and all despotism and to write anew upon new… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving… — Aleksandar Hemon 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… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“Alyssa tried to lift her chin. She was going to do the one thing she loved again- something that reminded her of… — Nicole Castro Copy Share Image
The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that.… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern… — David Adjaye 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
To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Both died, ignored by most; they neither sought nor found public favour, for high roads never lead there. Laurent and Gerhardt never… — Charles Adolphe Wurtz 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
“All boys wish to be manly; but they often try to become so by copying the vices of men rather than their… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
“It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's the nobility in… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image