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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. -- Edmund Burke
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword. -- Walter Scott
Virtue is the truest nobility. -- Miguel de Cervantes
True nobility is exempt from fear. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. -- William Shakespeare
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. -- Albert Camus
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. -- Solon
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. -- Riccardo Muti
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. -- Benito Mussolini
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. -- Theodore Bikel
Nobility is not only in forgiveness. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry. -- Francis Bacon
Nobility should be elective, not hereditary. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem -- Jane Porter
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem. -- Jane Porter
Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors. -- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. -- Rebecca West
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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
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How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely possessed, The husband scorn'd, wife sham'd, and babes unbless'd. -- John Webster
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Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.' -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two. -- John Frederick Boyes
Attain complete emptiness,Hold fast to stillness.Understanding the ordinary: Mind opens.Mind opening leads to compassion,Compassion to nobility,Nobility to heavenliness,Heavenliness to TAO. TAO endures. Your body dies.There is no danger. -- Lao Tzu
Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur. -- Charles Caleb Colton
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 worship and power to a false god? The prince? Or Banjiku? -- Tamora Pierce
Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source, than at its termination. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions. -- Kevin Costner
Virtue alone is true nobility. -- William Gifford
True nobility is being superior to your former self. -- Colin Firth
Be noble in every thought And in every deed! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The army is the true nobility of our country. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. -- Claudius Claudianus
What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? -- Theodore Roethke
What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance. -- Theodore Roethke
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease. -- James Anthony Froude
The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility. -- Alfred Rosenberg
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature! -- Euripides
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. -- Jean Rostand
Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility. -- Iyanla Vanzant
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. -- Boethius
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. -- Imelda Marcos
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. -- Ernest Hemingway
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. -- Viktor Korchnoi
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 heads. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives. -- John Lasseter
Ever since I was a kid, I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend, and, you know, the notion of nobility in battle and the - the notion of chivalry. -- Matt Frewer
The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood. -- Charles Dickens
In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something. -- Joaquin Phoenix
For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense. -- James T. Walsh
Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. -- Thaddeus Stevens
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all. -- Nelson Mandela
Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened. -- James E. Faust
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself. -- James E. Faust
Make a career of humanity... It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man... You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it. -- Charlie Sheen
Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor. -- Sappho
One finds nobility in the oddest places. -- Cassandra Clare
Modesty is a noble expression of honesty -- Constance Chuks Friday
I am a Count, Not a Saint. -- Alexandre Dumas
I am only a peasant by position, not by nature! -- Thomas Hardy
Without love, we would not comprehend compassion.- Govinda Shauri -- Krishna Udayasankar
When your cause is noble, you shall never know fear. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man. -- Suzy Kassem
If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion. -- Criss Jami
God himself had sent me away. I was truly now among the damned. -- Barbara T. Cerny
Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me. -- Criss Jami
In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard. -- Nicholas Sparks
A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. -- George Orwell
My life was going exactly where I wanted it to until the Devil showed up. -- Barbara T. Cerny
Yet Glory drags in chains behind her dazzling carthe obscure no less than the noble. -- Horace
if you keep a distance to get a respect, keep a distance to keep the respect -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action. -- George Hammond
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. -- Philip James Bailey
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy -- Boethius
The honourable are moved, by the nobility of another's sacrifice. The wicked are moved only by causing it. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others. -- Douglas Adams
No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble. -- Idries Shah
Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me. -- Jack London
To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble. -- Mark Twain
And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds. -- T.H. White
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him. -- Socrates
I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless. -- Barbara T. Cerny
Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?...He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage... -- Robert Olmstead
We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The black of the ocean waves was the color of the sorrow in my breast, a sorrow that was never far away and always visible. -- Barbara T. Cerny
Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. -- Whitney Young
Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. -- Christopher Paolini
Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me? -- Agatha Christie
If the human race has ever invented an institution more effective in the propagation of intellectual and ethical cripples than the nobility, I have yet to stumble across it. -- Daniel Polansky
Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted. -- Criss Jami
A truly honorable person, would never convince another to stray, from their personal pursuit of honor. No, only one lacking this noble quality would try to justify and market, an existence without it. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Any noble cause will encounter its share of setbacks. The strength of that cause is measured in how the men who fight for it respond. We refuse to give up, which is why we will prevail eventually. -- D.B. Jackson
Platitude or not, the crowd erupted into applause, and by acclamation, Kuni Garu became the Duke of Zudi. A few pointed out that titles of nobility really couldn't be handed out in such a democratic fashion, but these killjoys were ignored. -- Ken Liu
A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting. -- Daniel Handler
Alyssa tried to lift her chin. She was going to do the one thing she loved again- something that reminded her of her mother; something dear to her. So what if she felt this undeniable attraction toward the dark-haired man. Correction. Earl.So what, indeed. -- Nicole Castro
It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts; as was Hepzibah of this native inapplicability, so to speak, of the Pyncheons to any useful purpose. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the noblest work of an Englishman. -- Anthony Trollope
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 is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one. -- Ayn Rand
To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long. -- Criss Jami
There's no nobility in poverty. -- Jordan Belfort
Idleness is an appendix to nobility. -- Robert Burton
Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no nobility with bad manners. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Virtue is the first title of nobility. -- Moliere
Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood. -- William Hazlitt
There's nobility in hard work, traditional values. -- D. B. Sweeney
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All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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