Quotes About Nobility

Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge.

Mr Rennit was angry because he had not been given time to set his scene, and he could so obviously not afford his anger. There was a kind of starved nobility in the self-sacrifice of his rage.

But of course if you believed in God—and the Devil—the thing wasn't quite so comic. Because the Devil—and God too—had always used comic people, futile people, little suburban natures and the maimed and warped to serve his purposes. When God used them you talked emptily of Nobility and when the devil used them of Wickedness, but the material was only dull shabby human mediocrity in either case.

Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive--and getting away with it--is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun." "Then why are Mom and

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

Tony Hadley is a big Conservative. He is desperate to become a Lord. He's jealous of me.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

8. The Cat Who Lived in the Palace The cat who lived in the Palace had been awarded the head-dress of nobility and was called Lady Myobu.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.

Be humble for you are made of dung. Be noble for you are made of stars.

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

Belle, so brave and noble—willing to take her father's place as a prisoner in the castle dungeon. What sort of woman would do that—give up her life so easily, sacrificing her freedom for her father's?

What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.

You, what are you? The brat of lucky parents who were related to a childless king. There is no such thing as royal blood. I believe we are what we make ourselves, and as such, you, Crown Princess, are nothing.

There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.

Coffee is the common man's gold, and like gold, it brings to every person the feeling of luxury and nobility.

Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.

Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.

Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy," Wren said. "It's the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.

He was fabulously wealthy, he was astonishingly handsome, and he held one of the highest ranks in the country.

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