Quotes About Nobility

Sir John, once he

After falling on his knees and begging Richard [The Lion-heart] for his life, Isaac's only request is that he should not be placed in iron chains. Richard agrees to this request and orders that Isaac be bound in chains of silver.

The bourgeoisie, when it was struggling against the nobility sustained by the clergy, hoisted the flag of free thought and atheism; but once triumphant, it changed its tone and manner and today it uses religion to support its economic and political supremacy

España no experimentó una clásica revolución burguesa en la que se rompieran las estructuras del Antiguo Régimen. El poder de la monarquía, de la nobleza terrateniente y de la Iglesia seguían más o menos intactos bien entrado el siglo XX.

Muddleheadedness has always been the sovereign force in human affairs—a force far more potent than malevolence or nobility. It lubricates our hurtful impulses and ties our best intentions in knots. It blunts our wisdom, misdirects our compassion, clouds whatever insights into the human condition we manage to acquire. It is the chief artisan of the unintended consequences that constitute human history.

Perhaps he had failed. Perhaps the Order had failed. But both had failed nobly. There was something to that.

Little need be said here on the vexed question of the future of Charles Albert, Prince of Carignan, and on the plan of Charles Felix, aided and encouraged by Francis IV, Duke of Modena, to set aside the Prince in the order of succession in favor of his infant son, Victor Emmanuel II.

To the King my estate and life These things are to be given; but honor Is a thing of the soul And the soul belongs to God alone.

To the King my estate and life These things are to be given; but honor It is a thing of the soul And the soul belongs to God alone.

Qué os admira? ¿Qué os espanta? si fue mi maestro el sueño, y estoy temiendo en mis ansias, que he de despertar, y hallarme otra vez en mi cerrada prisión, y cuando no sea el soñarlo solo basta: pues así llegué a saber que toda la dicha humana en fin pasa como sueño; y quiero hoy aprovecharla el tiempo que me durare, pidiendo de nuestras faltas perdón, pues de pechos nobles es tan propio el perdonarlas.

You think that isn't you? You believe you are noble and kind? Do you know how the dominance works?

The dream was ennobling but doomed. It was Malcolm's curse to see this before the most of the rest of us; it was the beginning of his sainthood that when black Americans reached that point--when they arrived, that is to say, at their blackness--Malcolm was already there.

He would return again and again to the same themes over the years, with different details and different emphases, but always with the same underlying message: the inherent nobility not so much of man as of FREEDOM, and the implied responsibility - no, the OBLIGATION - for each of us to be as different as our individuated natures allowed us to be. To be different, in Sam's words, IN THE EXTREME.

Now Naomi had a relative on her husbandís side, a prominent man of noble character from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.

And now do not be afraid, my daughter. I will do for you whatever you request, since all my fellow townspeople know that you are a woman of noble character.

“We will restore it,” they replied, “and will require nothing more from them. We will do as you say.” So I summoned the priests and required of the nobles and officials an oath that they would do what they had promised.

Also in those days, the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiahís letters came back to them.

This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard about the queenís conduct will say the same thing to all the kingís officials, resulting in much contempt and wrath.

Let the robe and the horse be entrusted to one of the kingís most noble princes. Let them array the man the king wants to honor and parade him on the horse through the city square, proclaiming before him, ëThis is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!í”

For you say, ëWhere now is the noblemanís house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?í

The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.

Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor, and clothe yourself with honor and glory.

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies.” A Maskil of the sons of Korah. A love song. My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses to the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.

to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with shackles of iron,