Quotes About Nobility

My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

Uyuyamad?m, a?r?lar?m artt?, fakat ruhi azab?ma nispetle çok asil, sade ve saf olan et ?st?rab?m? o gece sevdim.

Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed armour, stiffened pleat, And that faint hint of the absurd— The little dogs under their feet.

To be nobly bornIs now a crime.

I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.

In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.

I think it would be nice to be a prince.

The empress, and young princes of the blood of both sexes, attended by many ladies, sat at some distance in their chairs; but

they have been troubled with the same disease to which the whole race of mankind is subject; the nobility often contending for power, the people for liberty, and the King for absolute dominion. All which, however happily tempered by the laws of that Kingdom, have been sometimes violated by each of the three parties

The emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the nobility, comes to see the author in his confinement. The emperor's person and habit described. Learned men appointed to teach the author their language. He gains favour by his mild disposition. His pockets are searched, and his sword and pistols taken from him.

door. It was likewise ordered, that three hundred tailors should make me a suit of clothes, after the fashion of the country; that six of his majesty's greatest scholars should be employed to instruct me in their language; and lastly, that the emperor's horses, and those of the nobility and troops of guards, should be frequently exercised in my sight, to accustom themselves to me.

whereof one was a page that held up his train, and

No prince, how great soever, begets his predecessors, and the noblest rivers are not navigable to the fountain.

They wanted to glory in grievance, in promises of vengeance, in their past oppression, in their present poverty and in the nobility of their darker skins.

A naprzód id? dworscy urz?dnicy: Ten w futrze ciep?em, lecz na wpó? odkrytem, Aby widziano jego krzy?ów cztery; Zmarznie, lecz wszystkim poka?e ordery,(...).

It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

The lost nobility of the artwork and of its natural spirit stems from the immoderate love of the people for anecdotes and juicy details.

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.