Quotes About Nobility

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

Any girl who would risk her life for someone she loves certainly deserves to be called a lady.

A minor fief had risen up against their cruel and avaricious lord, with hundreds of people surrounding his Manor house, threatening to burn it to the ground. The panicked nobleman's message for help was answered by the arrival of a single Ranger. Aghast, the nobleman confronted the solitary cowled figure. 'They sent one Ranger?' he said incredulously. 'One man?' 'How many riots do you have?' the Ranger replied.

Evanlyn was de bediende van mijn dochter. - Koning Duncan

Even was zelfs heer Anton van zijn protocollaire à propos gebracht.

Lady Pauline arched an eyebrow. "It didn't stop you throwing people into moats.

Wat zei ik nou? Als je nog een keer water over me heen slaat dan gooi ik je overboord! Voorzichtig! Niet te wild!' - Alyss Zo praat je eigenlijk niet tegen de kroonprinses van Araluen, schoot door Evanlyn heen.

Moreover, the papal system has opposed the march of civilization and liberty throughout the world, by denouncing the circulation of the Bible, and the general diffusion of knowledge. Turn to every land where popery predominates, and you will find an ignorant and debased peasantry, a profligate nobility, and a priesthood, licentious, avaricious, domineering and cruel.

Then let me tell you a thing I've learned in my eighty-nine years. This house, the friends and memories—I'd trade it all for a chance to do what that young woman just did: a noble act, freely undertaken. How many of us have such a chance? And how many the courage to take it?

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!

Learn to win a lady's faith Nobly, as the thing is high; Bravely as for life and death - With a loyal gravity. Lead her from the festive boards, Point her to the starry skies, Guard her, by your truthful words, Pure from courtship's flatteries.

Unlike we are, unlike, O princely Heart! Unlike our uses and our destinies... Thou, bethink thee, art A guest for queens to social pageantries, With gages from a hundred brighter eyes Than tears even can make mine... What hast though to do With looking from the lattice-lights at me, A poor, tired, wandering singer...

An honest man's the noblest work of God." Alexander Pope Psalm 23:4 "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.~Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 - 1861

Alienor raised her eyebrows. "I can see straight through your ruse," she said. "Even if it is not plain on your face, Aimery de Niort is giving the game away." She glanced toward the young knight who was holding his own horse at the ready, his expression expectant and smug.

Brats," he muttered under his breath. "They take after you, my lord," Alienor said sweetly.

talking to the knights—jesting

What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly. 'Reverence,' he replied.

Heus, kuisheid is alleen iets voor de laagste klasse. [...] Ik ben nog nooit aan een hof geweest waar ze met de kuisheid erg nauw waren.

Por eso intento recordar cada día que a reyes y poderosos siempre hay que darles gracias, aunque no se tenga de qué, y nunca quejas, aunque se tenga de qué.

Si Felipe IV se hubiera puesto al frente de los viejos y gloriosos tercios y hubiera recobrado Holanda, vencido a Luis XIII de Francia y a su ministro Richelieu, limpiado el Atlántico de piratas y el Mediterráneo de turcos, invadido Inglaterra, izado la cruz de San Andrés en la Torre de Londres y en la Sublime Puerta, no habría despertado tanto entusiasmo entre sus súbditos como el hecho de matar un toro con personal donaire...

nada menos que con tres reyes al frente, en un tiempo en el que los reyes se la jugaban en el campo de batalla, y no casándose con lady Di o cayéndose en los escalones del bungalow mientras cazaban elefantes.

Otra hubiera sido la historia de nuestra desgraciada España si los impulsos del pueblo, a menudo generoso, hubieran primado con más frecuencia frente a la árida razón de Estado, el egoísmo, la venalidad y la incapacidad de nuestros políticos, nuestros nobles y nuestros monarcas.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.