Quotes About Nobility

Having so-called "blue-blood" does not automatically mean that person has class. It just means somewhere down the road someone in their family was once someone of note. It's been my experience that blue-bloods and real nobility and royalty never mix. (Or at least they do not mix well.)

There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.

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.

I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I might never have it again-- that scares me worse than anything.

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

Come in, Noaks," said the Duke. "You have been to a lecture?" "Aristotle's Politics," nodded Noaks.

My pride shrinks from them. Love, however, is greater than pride; and I, John, Albert, Edward, Claude, Orde, Angus, Tankerton,* Tanville-Tankerton,* fourteenth Duke of Dorset, Marquis of Dorset, Earl of Grove, Earl of Chastermaine, Viscount Brewsby, Baron Grove, Baron Petstrap, and Baron Wolock, in the Peerage of England, offer you my hand.

I am Duke of Strathsporran and Cairngorm, Marquis of Sorby, and Earl Cairngorm, in the Peerage of Scotland.

Meditate on good things. "Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things" (Phil. 4:8).

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

One must think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being.

Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

Kings don't sneak.

As I've already explained, Lady Shadow, I've spent a lot of time at court. I'm already well-versed in the art of bowing and keeping my mouth shut." "Ha! But have you read Crumpets and Cravats?

The duke is oblivious to all of this. He seems to regard himself as above everyone else, even—and maybe especially—his wife. Like they're all children he's tolerating until they're sent back into the nursery with the governess.

As the Earl of Gormenghast he could never be alone. He could only be lonely.

Who do you serve?" Lanferelle asked. "Sir John Cornerwailled," Hook said proudly. Lanferelle was pleased. "Sir John! Ah, there's a man. His mother must have slept with a Frenchman.

To protect the honour of the king's sister, of course

I'm not his man, Father. I'm Uhtred of Bebbanburg, and the lords of Bebbanburg don't marry pious maggotfaced bitches of low birth.