Quotes About Nobility

I'm not certain what you mean by that last bit," I said at last. "As for the first, you said 'until last year.' Does that mean that Lady Tamara has someone else in view?" "But of course," Nee said blandly. "The Marquis of Shevraeth." I laughed all the way up the steps into the Residence.

All who seek to be nobler than their constitution permits succumb to neurosis; they would have been better in health if they had found it possible to be morally worse.

He wandered to the window. In that blast of snow, the shaft of the Plymouth National Bank Building was aspiring as a cathedral; twenty gray stories, with unbroken vertical lines swooping up beyond his vision into the snowy fog. It had nobility, but it seemed cruel, as lone and contemptuous of friendly human efforts as a forgotten tower on the Siberian steppes. How indifferently it would watch him starve and freeze!

Well, said the haut prince, this day must noble knights joust.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum

Say, can the mind be noble, where the stream Of gratitude is withered from the spring?

Io ho desiderato, fino alla disperazione, di poter essere tutto per lei, fino al giorno in cui ho appreso, nel dolore, che è infinitamente più nobile non essere, per lei, assolutamente niente.

Whenever i live my Life I Live with honour

Humble spirit leads to a noble character.

Grace is the strength of greatness.

If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.

Two of far nobler shape erect and tall,Godlike erect, with native honor cladIn naked majesty seem'd lords of all.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate.

People who are not in love may lightly laugh at lovers; and yet true love is a genuine and a noble thing for all that.

Nature doth nothing so great for great men, as when she's pleased to make them lords of truth: Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.

The highest evidence of nobility in a Christian is self-control. We

Cel mai puternic bastion al viciului din lumea noastra, nu este viata nelegiuita a pacatosilor abandonati sau a proscrisilor degenerati, ci o viata care pare virtuoasa, onorabila si nobila, dar în care este nutrit un pacat, este îngaduit un viciu... În felul acesta, geniul, talentul, simpatia si chiar faptele generoase si amabile pot deveni momeli ale lui Satana pentru a ademeni sufletele în prapastia ruinei.

Whenever possible, Gowan Stoughton of Craigievar, Duke of Kinross, Chief of Clan MacAulay, avoided rooms crowded with Englishmen. They were all babbling gossips with more earwax than brains, as his father was wont to say. Though Shakespeare had got there first.

A number of visitors called this morning,' Finchley announced with some pride. He took a tray from a waiting footman and displayed it as if it were a baby. Sure enough there was a little heap of cardboard bits, embossed with the names of nobility, acquaintances, friends and the purely curious.

Yes." Ridiculous twaddle flooded his mind. Your eyes looked like forget-me-nots. I want to kiss you. I want to tear off your clothing. I want to marry you. You are my duchess.