Quotes About Nobility

A crushed hope is suffused with a nobility that mere hopelessness can never know.

It is surely not coincidental that all the earliest citations of the word bore in the Oxford English Dictionary—from the mid-eighteenth century—come from the correspondence of aristocrats and nobility.2 They did not have technology, but thanks to wealth and position they had a kind of easy everywhere of their own. The first people to be bored were the people who did not do manual work, who did not cook their own food, whose lives were served by others.

I will venture to say, that in no writings whatever can be found more bark and steel for the mind, if I may use the expression; more that can brace and invigorate every manly and noble sentiment. No. 32 on patience, even under extreme misery, is wonderfully lofty, and as much above the rant of stoicism, as the Sun of Revelation is brighter than the twilight of Pagan philosophy.

From her instructions, I had an early notion, that it was much more noble to forgive an injury than to resent it: and to give a life than to take it.

No man, Mr. Reeves, would be more ready than myself to ask pardon, even of my inferior, had I done a wrong thing: But never should a prince make me stoop to disavow a right one.

La guerra no solo forjó una identidad para los pueblos, sino que además organizó a la sociedad, dándoles a los guerreros la casta más alta. La primera nobleza, tanto en Europa como en Asia y África, fue el estamento militar. Hubo que esperar hasta la llegada del capitalismo, mucho después, para que se exaltara a la burguesía trabajadora, en un fenómeno muy ligado al crecimiento de las ciudades.

What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all?

And what can we conclude from this lesson, Your Highness? Alek glared at the man. We can conclude, Count Volger, that discussing politics while fencing is idiotic.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Edel sei der Mensch, hilfreich und gut! Denn das allein unterscheidet ihn von allen Wesen, die wir kennen.

Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit geführt.

The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.

Often silence is a powerful weapon. If we only knew how valiantly it could serve us in defense we should use it more. Under abuse or attack it may be the sign of guilt; but it may also be a proof of innocence and an unmistakable evidence of nobility.

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.

Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign Love was as subtly catched, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, Which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, For though 'tis got by chance,'tis kept by art

And kind as kings upon their coronation day.

Of ancient race by birth, but nobler yetIn his own worth.

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.

Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die.

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury.