Avoiding Quote by Boethius

Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.

— Alan Weisman

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.”

— Marcel Proust

Nobility means strength of character, a word of honor, immovability and mind over matter.

— Anonymous

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You think that commanding an army grants you nobility? Nobility comes from fighting besides your soldiers, not kidnapping a woman to cheat your way…

— Bartolomeo d'Alviano

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

— Jane Porter

There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

— D. B. Sweeney

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

— John Lancaster Spalding

In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.

— Cullen Hightower