Nobility Quotes

257 Nobility quotes by 211 unique authors

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate. — Benjamin Disraeli
PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . .… — Ambrose Bierce
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us. — Albert Camus
The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of the… — John Fowles
People today, vampyres and humans alike, believe the earth is just a dead thing that they live on-that it is somehow wrong or evil or… — P. C. Cast
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. — John Lothrop Motley
As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also. — Gary Zukav
....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as… — Archibald Rutledge
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Virtue is the truest nobility. — Miguel de Cervantes
Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. — William Shakespeare
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express. — Marya Mannes
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. — Boethius
To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right. — Thomas Paine
Let a man nobly live or nobly die. — Sophocles
Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated… — Mary McCarthy
I am excited to be doing 'SVU' - I think there's a lot of inherent drama and a lot of inherent conflict in procedural shows.… — Danny Pino

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