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I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone. -Myles of Olau -- Tamora Pierce
Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes. -- George Herbert
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. -- Henry David Thoreau
The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree. -- Seneca the Younger
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman. -- Anthony Trollope
Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman. -- Edmund Burke
Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty? -- Brandon Sanderson
NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life. -- Ambrose Bierce
MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman. -- Ambrose Bierce
I wanted to be a nobleman; I bought a name and a title... Oh, nothing is impossible with five million a year. -- Eugene Sue
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
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 was not so easy to create noblemen and kings. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do. -- Francis Bacon
Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
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 obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved. -- William Blake
I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me. -- Brandon Sanderson
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 and prefer 'speech' and 'discourse'; well-bred, brilliant, or polite noblemen (visions of snobbery columns in the Press, and fat men on the Riviera) and prefer the 'worthy, brave and courteous men' of long ago. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
A minor fief had risen up against their cruel and avaricious lord, with hundreds of people surrounding his Manor house, threatening to burn it to the ground. The panicked nobleman's message for help was answered by the arrival of a single Ranger. Aghast, the nobleman confronted the solitary cowled figure. 'They sent one Ranger?' he said incredulously. 'One man?' 'How many riots do you have?' the Ranger replied. -- John Flanagan
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet. -- Josh Billings
Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about. -- Gary Shteyngart
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 proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings. -- William Hazlitt
Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands. -- Anthony Trollope

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