Noblemen Quotes

28 quotes by 24 authors

I wanted to be a nobleman; I bought a name and a title... Oh, nothing is impossible with five million a year. — Eugene Sue
Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes. — George Herbert
I think the honesty not only shines through in my work, but also my personal life. And I get in trouble for being honest. I'm… — Charlie Sheen
We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is… — William Hazlitt
The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of… — Aurora Levins Morales
NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life. — Ambrose Bierce
According to Melissa Mailey, we now live in a world where kings and noblemen rule the roost. And they've turned all of central Europeâ€”our home,… — Michael Stearns
Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics. — Richard Rorty
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. — Oliver Goldsmith
MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman. — Ambrose Bierce
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and… — William Blake
In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no… — Otto von Bismarck
It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had… — Adolphe Menjou
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer. — George Bernard Shaw
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. — Henry David Thoreau
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it… — Henry David Thoreau
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman. — Anthony Trollope
And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he… — Charles Dickens

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