Quotes About Nobility

He looked tired and stooped and Daniel thought with some discomfort that all he lacked was a crown of thorns.

Biped Now that you have hit me, I must dab at my mouth and smile quietly, or not smile at all, but in some way show I am noble, not base. And the dog inside, who whimpers so piteously, and would like to lick your hands —it feels so out of favour— that dog must be silenced before its howling betrays disgrace. But I am that dog. It was I who howled, I who was hurt. I felt the pain. And it is I who despised myself.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

Ti­tles are granted or in­her­ited, no­bil­ity isn't. Whatever paper we receive, be it of material or immaterial value – it will never exceed the value of your character being loved by people!

But I must admit that my motives were no entirely noble; there were in me at least some elements of the anger and hurt vanity that characterize a spurned lover, and these unworthy sentiments helped me to keep my distance.

Whoever thinks that in high personages new benefits cause old offences to be forgotten, makes a great mistake.

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He'd also agreed to be betrothed to the Archduke of Varsha's daughter, a girl of nine who had evidently impressed him a great deal by being able to spit across a garden plot. I was a little dubious about this as a foundation for marriage, but I suppose it wasn't much worse than marrying her because her father might have stirred up rebellion, otherwise.

There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.

Hay épocas y lugares en los que no ser nadie es más honorable que ser alguien.

Ci sono epoche e luoghi in cui essere nessuno è più onorevole che essere qualcuno

S? takie miejsca i takie czasy, kiedy bycie nikim przynosi wi?kszy zaszczyt ni? bycie kim?.

There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honorable than to be someone.

She'd known many men in her life but this bear of a man with a lawyer's mind, an accountant's habits, and a knight's spirit outshone them all.

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

I know that pain is the one nobility / upon which Hell itself cannot encroach

The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.

Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.

And the d'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing.

È senza dubbio una disgrazia per un uomo che deve procurarsi da vivere, nascere con una natura realmente nobile. Un animo elevato condurrà un uomo all'ospizio di mendicità.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

When she saw him come nigh, she said, Away, kitchen knave, out of the wind, for the smell of thy bawdy clothes grieveth me.

And both together, love-worthy and life-worthy, made up the true nobility.

the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?