Quotes About Nobility

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My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.

You,my lord, are giving me goose bumps. Every beautiful woman deserves to be clothed in no less.

No, my lord. I merely thought it unwise for you to visit the Duke of Massingale and request his granddaughter's hand in marriage while intoxicated." Reeves replaced the stopper on the decanter and carried it back to the sideboard. "His Lordship would not appreciate such a display.

They make a lovely couple, my lord," Jameson said, fishing in his pocket for a clean handkerchief. He found one and handed it to the duke. "Indeed they do," the duke said, blowing his nose rather loudly. "They will be even lovelier once they're properly married!

Each step in the development of the bourgeoisie was accompanied by a corresponding political advance in that class. An oppressed class under the sway of the feudal nobility, an armed and self-governing association of medieval commune: here independent urban republic (as

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

To live with glory, or with glory die, This is the brave man's part.

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.