Quotes About Nobility

Tendemos a postergarnos por los hijos, los compañeros, los padres y por casi todos los demás. Nos sometemos y sacrificamos por amor, eso nos parece el colmo de la nobleza.

los incas de la nobleza rara vez tenían consideraciones con su pueblo.

Sin duda. El destino del hombre es elevarse por encima de la bestialidad, conducir su vida según los más Noble ideales y salvar su alma.

Sin duda. El destino del hombre es elevarse por encima de la bestialidad, conducir su vida según los más nobles ideales y salvar su alma.

There are no credentials. They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either in body or mind. They only require a certificate of birth -just to prove they are first of the litter. You would not choose a Spaniel on these principles. (On aristocracy)

A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.

Valour is nobleness of the mind.

Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet song.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

Noble fathers have noble children.

Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word.

To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.

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?

Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

I was on the way to becoming a duchess, and I had made the Kingmaker angry. What more could a child of seven have accomplished in one day?

Kindness is always motivated by something nobler than just a desire to be kind.

Oh, silly people at court care, because they're the sort of fools who believe that one's ancestors are much more important than one's personal merit. Prove you're the great-great-great granddaughter of some medieval king's illegitimate whelp, as she did, and they'll fawn all over you and give you money, entry into the right houses, introductions to the right people…

magnanimousness.

In Spain there's the king - and then there's Antonio.

Nobility, I always have one thing common with you, I always think you're an angel