Quotes About Nobility

When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble?

It goes Prince, Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron, Baronet.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

Tahu berterima kasih adalah tanda sikap ksatria.

The dining hall itself was splendid; high-vaulted, with enough decorative pennants and banners and hanging crystal to suggest that the master of this manse desired to at least imitate the trappings of a nobility he did not possess through natural descent. Oil-lamps of filigree and gold illuminated the great room while the profusion of precious objects far exceeded what he had encountered in the hallway. It was an ostentatious display of wealth that bordered on the obscene.

So what does that actually mean?" "To be honest, Ghastly, I haven't a bull's notion." "Elder Bespoke should be addressed by his title," Tipstaff said. "Of course," Skulduggery said. "To be honest, Your Highness, I haven't a bull's notion.

but where does this nobility come from? Generosity or fear? Wisdom or ignorance?

When we love somebody, whether it be a friend, a parent, a child, whether it be conjugal love or neighborly love, the beloved person always stands before us as something precious and noble in himself.

God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.

A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.

What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.

Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

I wonder which is the more useful to a nation, " he asked rhetorically, "a well-powdered nobleman who knows exactly at what minute the King gets up and goes to bed, and who gives himself grand airs while playing the part of a slave in some Minister's antechamber, or a business man who enriches his country, issues orders from his office to Surat or Cairo, and contributes to the well-being of the world.

Do you know how one knows a cavalier when one sees him? He always behaves decently when he is drunk.

the fair ' led our people out of the wilderness of the commonplace to new ideas of architectural beauty and nobility.

The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness, and the two characters are both of noble birth.

Strašna je ova ribetina, moram je obuzdati, pomisli. Ne smijem joj dopustiti da postane svjesna svoje snage ni onoga što bi mogla u?initi kad bi potegnula svom snagom. Da sam na njezinu mjestu, sad bih zapeo iz sve snage i povukao pa kud puklo da puklo. Ali one, hvala Bogu, nisu tako pametne ko mi koji ih ubijama, iako su plemenitije i sposobnije od nas.

Non c'è nulla di nobile nell'essere superiore a qualcun altro. La vera nobiltà consiste nell'essere superiore a chi eravamo ieri.

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run. If I were him I would put in everything now and go until something broke. But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and able.

There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

There is only a good fight and a good death for the one whose life is given to the noble.

Englezul ?i-n cas? goal? e ca la curtea regal?.

Eighth Earl of Spencer