Quotes About Nobility

Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him.

Van realmente a tolerar ser descaradamente empujados a un lado, tolerar esa fría ignorancia, a la joven austríaca que se rodea de tipos desconocidos y mujeres dudosas, en vez de rodearse de la nobleza tradicional, asentada durante siglos? Los excluidos se arremolinan. Cada día, cada año aumentan sus filas. Y pronto por las desiertas ventanas de Versalles el odio de cien ojos mira hacia el despreocupado e ingenuo mundo de juegos de la reina.

O femeie este cu atît mai nobil? È™i mai cinstit? cu cît urmeaz?, liber?, sentimentul ei sincer, îndelung încercat – È™i o regin? este cu atît mai regal?, cu cît se poart? cît mai omeneÈ™te.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!

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

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

I used to think that people are were supposed to be more strange, and dirty, and full of all sorts of emotions, pity and nobility, with infinite layers of complications.

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance

You'd really do that?' he blurted out. 'You'd really set a hungry werewolf free? Do you know what that means? Nobody would be safe from me.' 'I know,' said Atreyu. 'But I'm Nobody. Why should I be afraid of you?

How can you say that?' said Rudi. 'Just look at him, Karl. Can you not see that he's something special? This one isn't just any old horse. There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there's divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them.

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend, and, you know, the notion of nobility in battle and the - the notion of chivalry.

True kindness ennobles the giver

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII's knights in another life, riding through a great forest.

Blenheim Palace, home of the Dukes of Marlborough, whose achievements over the last eleven generations could be inscribed with a Sharpie on the side of a peanut.

BEFORE HE CAME INTO a lot of money in 1839, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, second Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, led a largely uneventful life.

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. but even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this.