Quote by Brandon Sanderson Download Open image ““Despite noble depravity, there was something intoxicating about high society.”” — Brandon Sanderson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“What place indeed is there in the shallow petty frivolous thing called society for noble thoughts and feelings?” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political ineffiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was clear that everything considered important and good was insignificant and repulsive, and that all this glamour and luxury hid the old well-known… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.” — Mensah Oteh Copy Share Image
“No caste system or aristocracy has survived the centuries with its power intact. Humanity kneels poorly as a whole.” — Glynn Stewart Copy Share Image
“The sign of a good society is one that protect its weakest. The strong can always look after themselves.” — Dave Courtney Copy Share Image
“There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“Society always tries to enslave, imprison, and execute its greatest men, those who dare to stand apart and rise above.” — Sam Torode Copy Share Image
“Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In a sense life in the high-rise had begun to resemble the world outside - there were the same ruthlessness and agression concealed within… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“I’ll admit, Jasnah, that I empathize with your skepticism, but I don’t agree with it. I just think you've been looking for God in… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Why, Elend! That’s almost romantic—in a twisted ‘I’m going to make my wife want to kill me’ sort of way.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“And...how much are we getting paid for achieving the impossible?” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Elantris was the one place where she could remember feeling unconditional acceptance. She had not been a princess, she had been something far better… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Elend smiled. "Oh, come on. You have to admit that you're unusual, Vin. You're like some strange mixture of a noblewoman, a street urchin,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“That is always how it is, though, isn't it?” Shuden asked. “Those who can least afford extravagance seem to be the ones most determined… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“He says he’s letting the Stormfather judge you,” Moash added. “Jezerezeh, king of Heralds. He says that if you deserve to live, you will….”… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“The stories say the Nightwatcher might be capable of that. . . . Powerful spren. Vast spren.’ ‘Is he calling me vast?’ Syl said,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
