Quotes About Nobility

I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers, A most delicious banquet by his bed, And brave attendants near him when he wakes, Would not the beggar then forget himself?

To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.

He was not born to shame:Upon his brow shame is asham'd to sit.

To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

O Kate! nice customs curtsy to great kings.

His nature is too noble for the world:He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,Or Jove for 's power to thunder. His heart's his mouth:What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent.

First Guard:… Charmian, is this well done?Charmian: It is well done, and fitting for a princessDescended of so many royal kings.

No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,Become them with one half so good a graceAs mercy does.

He is not great who is not greatly good.

The chase, the sport of kings;Image of war, without its guilt.

A perfect woman, nobly planned,To warn, to comfort, and command.And yet a Spirit still, and brightWith something of angelic light.

In whom the love of honor and praise is innate, are those who are elevated most above the brutes, and who are justly named men, and not merely human beings.

St Augustine had this to say about pressure: 'To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world: war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures, and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendor. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure, but does not complain. For it is the friction which polishes him. It is pressure which refines and makes him noble.

To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world: war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures, and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendor. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure, but does not complain. For it is the friction which polishes him. It is pressure which refines and makes him noble.

Nietzsche talked about "good and bad" in the context of nobility. The nobles regarded the exceptional as good and the mediocre as bad. When the "good and bad" of the nobility was replaced by the "good and evil" of the mob, exceptionalism was declared evil, and mediocrity was sanctified. The holy mediocrities are now everywhere. The kingdom of mediocrity is absolute … absolute shit!

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.

Unselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs of the biography of souls.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a Knighthood

The man who said no to sin, cheat, deceit, manipulation, wickedness, hatred, jealousy and pride, has said yes to greatness

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.