Quotes About Nobility

The knowledge that at any moment you would be expected to and in fact would sacrifice your life for that of another man, for the benefit of the common good, made for a supremely noble act in a world more and more devoid of anything remotely virtuous.

The exercise of thought, whatever people may say, is more noble than the exercise of bodily organs, and we give precedence to science over cookery and to intellectual training over hygiene.

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

At Coucy's level, men and women hawked and hunted and carried a favorite falcon, hooded, on the wrist wherever they went, indoors or out—to church, to the assizes, to meals. On occasion, huge pastries were served from which live birds were released to be caught by hawks unleashed in the banquet

Of England's patrician class, the author writes: "It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease.

The boy would learn to ride, to fight, and to hawk, the three chief physical elements of noble life,

The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.

liberality in gifts and expenditure which, since his followers lived off it, was extolled as the most admired attribute of a noble.

Devout or not, all owned and carried Books of Hours, the characteristic fashionable religious possession of the 14th century noble.

If not fighting, or attending the King, he was generally being held somewhere for ransom.

the inadvertent by-product of the nobles' passionate pursuit of war.

Where Brooke was embracing cleanness and nobleness, Mann saw a more positive goal. Germans being, he said, the most educated, law-abiding, peace-loving of all peoples, deserved to be the most powerful, to dominate, to establish a "German peace" out of "what is being called with every possible justification the German war.

passion for Sybil, wife of a lord of Lorraine, Enguerrand

servile degree." The object of the noble's function, in theory, was not fighting for fighting's sake, but defense of the two other estates and the maintenance of justice and order. He was supposed to protect the people from oppression, to combat tyranny, and to cultivate virtue—that is, the higher qualities of humanity of which the mud-stained ignorant peasant was considered incapable by his contemporaries in Christianity, if not by its founder.

Envy of the older nations gnawed at him. He complained to Theodore Roosevelt that the English nobility on continental tours never visited Berlin but always went to Paris.

At Coucy's level, men and women hawked and hunted and carried a favorite falcon, hooded, on the wrist wherever they went, indoors or out—to church, to the assizes, to meals. On occasion, huge pastries were served from which live birds were released to be caught by hawks unleashed in the banquet hall.

What the Ambassador was witnessing—in idea, if not yet in fact—was the transfer of power from its arbitrary exercise by nobles and monarchs to power stationed in a constitution and in representation of the people. The period of the transfer, coinciding with his own career, from 1767 to 1797,

Bourgeois might be forbidden to own a carriage or wear ermine, and peasants to wear any color but black or brown. Florence allowed doctors and magistrates to share the nobles' privilege of ermine, but ruled out for merchants' wives multicolored, striped, and checked gowns,

Expenditure of money by commoners pained the nobles not least because they saw it benefiting the merchant class rather than themselves.

Anonymity is the truest heroism .

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion.

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful.