logo

Quotes About Nobility

There is something so pure and frank and noble about him that to doubt his sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.
~ Charles Jefferson
Honor is better than honors.
~ Abraham Lincoln
It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
~ H. L. Mencken
...sometimes compassion is the greater part of honor.
~ Rachel Vincent, Shift
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
~ Wendell Willkie
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
~ Plato
Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
~ Herman Melville
Honor is the moral conscience of the great.
~ William Davenant
To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
To die with honor when one can no longer live with honor.
~ John Luther Long
Honor is decency without vanity.
~ Arthur Koestler
I wish people had half the honor of dragons.
~ Terry Goodkind
There's not much out there that people are fighting for that leaves them with nothing but honor.
~ Jeffrey Donovan
To be dignified and distinguished give honor and dignity to others.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.
~ Christopher Marlowe
I should like to be a horse.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
Yes, Father. They have the bravest hearts, the noblest souls, and the shiniest armor in all the world.""Shiniest armor?" repeated King Ban.
~ Gerald Morris
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.
~ Henry James
Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.
~ Ron Howard
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
The noblest revenge is to forgive
~ Thomas Fuller
True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.
~ Portia de Rossi
The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.
~ Chanakya