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Quotes About Nobility

To die before coming to the end of willpower, was that not an aristocrat's choice? He
~ Frank Herbert
You will address me as Sire or my Lord," Paul said.
~ Frank Herbert
Y el Duquecito, querido Piter, el chico Paul?
~ Frank Herbert
This was nobility. Their mutual affection and esteem suddenly increased enormously. It was Damon and Pythias; it was David and Jonathan; nothing could ever estrange them. Now it was for life or death.
~ Frank Norris
I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
~ John Lasseter
Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.
~ John Betjeman
Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
~ Philip Treacy
Foarte aproape de noi, p?durea râdea uneori cu o voce un pic ascuÈ›it? de feti?? È™i apoi se aÈ™ternea o t?cere îndelungat? È™i era greu s? nu o b?nuieÈ™ti de un s?rut, sau chiar mai r?u. Era totuÈ™i o p?dure foarte demn? È™i chiar afectat?, care avea mai multe titluri de nobleÈ›e.
~ Romain Gary
Where in this wide world can a person find nobility without pride, friendship without envy or beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined. He serves without servility, he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent; there is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.
~ Ronald Duncan
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy or beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is laced with muscle, and strength by gentleness confined. He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent, there is nothing so quick, nothing more patient. England's past has been borne on his back. All our history is his industry; we are his heirs, he our inheritance. The Horse!" ~ Ronald Duncan
~ Ronald Duncan
Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever. Diana hasn't quite made up her mind though, because she thinks perhaps it would be nobler to marry some wild, dashing, wicked young man and reform him.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
È molto più facile essere un eroe che un galantuomo. Eroi si può essere una volta tanto; galantuomini, si dev'esser sempre.
~ Luigi Pirandello
You might consider letting us go and minding your own business...or else I shall be forced to stomp on your foot, sir. My lord, he corrected, sounding amused at her threat. Daniel, Lord Woodrow.
~ Lynsay Sands
Living a Princely life requires that you learn to think and reason like the Prince, talk and behave like him, react like him as well.
~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu
I walk, talk and act like a king even though I know there's no royalty in my bloodline
~ ETC Wanyanwu
I am a nobody trying to be a somebody by not riding or pulling down anybody.
~ Amit Abraham
I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….
~ Henry Clay
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
~ George Edward Woodberry
Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.
~ George Mikes
Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
~ Edwin Arnold
The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I give no sign. Maybe the reason I decided to behave in this way was that Mother had taught me that you can tell real kings and nobles by the fact that they despise their titles and know full well that true nobility consists in behaving toward the simplest people with humility, like an ordinary human being.
~ Amos Oz
waiting on God] is not only rendered necessary by our sin and helplessness. It is simply and ruly our restoration to our original destiny and our highhest nobility, to our true place and glory as creatures blessedly dependent on the All-Glorious God.
~ Andrew Murray
When we see that humility is something infinitely deeper than contrition, and accept it as our participation in the life of Jesus, we shall begin to learn that it is our true nobility, and that to prove it in being servants of all is the highest fulfillment of our destiny, as men created in the image of God.
~ Andrew Murray