Quotes About Nobility

It was a saying about noble figures in old Irish poems—he would give his hawk to any man that asked for it, yet he loved his hawk better than men nowadays love their bride of tomorrow. He would mourn a dog with more grief than men nowadays mourn their fathers.

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

For Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset would not spend his life as Earl Clyvedon. That was a mere courtesy title. Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset—the baby who possessed more names than any baby could possibly need—was the heir to one of England's oldest and richest dukedoms. And his father, the ninth Duke of Hastings, had waited years for this moment

There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in doing good.

Jonakin päivänä, Catherine sanoi kylmästi, – lankeatte vielä polvillenne eteeni pyytäen anteeksi sanojanne, Arnaud de Montsalvy, Chataignerin herra. Mutta ette saa minulta anteeksiantoa ettekä armoa.

And you dare to wear the golden spurs of a knight? You dare to call yourself a Marshal of France and carry the fleur-de-lis on your coat of arms? The meanest lackey in this hall knows more of honour and loyalty than you! Hang and burn my servants and kill me - kill too, now that you have handed your companion-in-arms Arnaud de Montsalvy, to your cousin. With my last breath, I shall call on Heaven to witness that Gilles de Rais is a traitor and a felon!

As for... Monseigneur's feelings toward you, I think you are misinformed. You are too modest, Dame Catherine, far too modest, and I believe you know that the Duke has not forgotten you. Everyone here knows the truth about the Golden Fleece...

Ton père? Il est le dernier de cette race effrayante des Tournemine, qui durant les siècles, ont fondu comme des oiseaux de proie sur tout ce qui passait à portée de leurs tours (.....) Il ne lui restait rien de la puissance ni de l'énorme fortune qui faisaient dire, à certaine époque, que les messieurs de La Hunaudaye étaient seulement un peu moins grands seigneurs que le Roi de France. Il s'appelait Pierre ....

Non sei che un vile, duca di Bourgogne, traditore del tuo re di cui lasci insozzare la dimora. Io ti dichiaro indegno di portare glis speroni di cavaliere...

An Aryan [noble] mind has too much respect for other people, and its sense of its own dignity is too pronounced to allow it to impose its own ideas upon others, even when it knows that its ideas are correct.

Fidelity is what cannot be bought or sold. It obeys a law and attaches itself to a necessity. Convenience can be calculated, but fides can only be established by the spontaneous act of a man who is capable of inner nobility. Fides means personality and hierarchy .

The hands of the latest aristocrats seem better fit to hold tennis rackets or shakers for cocktail mixes than swords or scepter.

Ladies from fine old Imperial families shouldn't sleep in tents and shit in ditches. Exactly what they were supposed to do all day nobody had quite figured out yet; be put away in cupboards when not in use seemed to be the prevailing opinion.

If he is willing to come and clean the toilets, be a nobody, he may come. But since he already is demanding a position and looking for a great title, it would be best if he stays where he is. Please tell him not to come.

The Winter Prince was before me, with his noble, knightly bearing and the impossible beauty that is paralytic at close range. And I wanted nothing more than to vanish into his arms, and his embrace, but I saw the look on his face and I remembered then that he was my enemy and that there was only one thing to do. Run.

They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.

Her name was Sorcha--the English call it Sarah--and she grew up in a family related to the king of Leinster.

The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands. "Toward a New architecture" July 14, 1957

the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.

Among the four things a noble person need not be ashamed of is serving a scholar in order to learn from him. Ata- b. Musab's remoteness from and indifference to the Barmecides made him popular with them, although others possessed more adab than he did.

The man who has knowledge is considered most outstanding among people, Even if he does not occupy a position of nobility among his people. Wherever he settles, he can make a living from his knowledge. A man who possesses knowledge is no stranger anywhere.

Who was I to dare to talk to him? In which of Europe's ghettos had my ancestor been huddled when Frederick von Hohenstaufen gave Anno von Hohenfels his bejewelled hand?

Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen.