Copyright Quote by Dorothy Parker

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.

— William Shakespeare

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

— Franz Grillparzer

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

— Ernest Hemingway

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?

— Bantu Holomisa

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

— Henry Clay

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

— Anthony Trollope

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

— Boethius

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 is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

— Ernest Hemingway

“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