Nobility Quotes

257 Nobility quotes by 211 unique authors

There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most loved, one of the most skillful,… — Gregory Peck
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time… — Ayn Rand
Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of societyâ€™s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings. — Alan Weisman
Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that… — David Gemmell
He squeezed Steve's shoulder possessively. "Oh, Zero. He is not you, I must admit. He does not have your bravery, your nobility, your je ne… — Anne Ursu
To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble. — Mark Twain
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the… — Salman Rushdie
Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard. — Nicholas Sparks
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against… — Theodore Roethke
America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted… — Malcolm X
Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now heâ€™s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the end of the… — Ann Aguirre
â€ŽHonoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be. — Portia de Rossi
Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help." I was too flummoxed to tell him I hadn't expected help… — Tamora Pierce
The nobility of the human spirit grows harder for me to believe in. War, zealotry, greed, malls, narcissism. I see a backhanded nobility in excessive,… — Mary Roach
What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood… — Sergei Lukyanenko
No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving… — Tamora Pierce
I am Saâ€™kagÃ© a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not. I am the strong arm of deliverance. I am… — Brent Weeks

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