Quotes About Nobility

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

There is a certain noble pride, through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.

Let them know a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

U po?etku su svi bili gordi na veliku zadužbinu koju treba da podigne vezir iz njihovog kraja.Tada još nisu znali ovo što vide sada: da te slavne gra?evine traže ovoliki krš i nemir, napor i trošak.

Con un rostro tan aristocrático como brutal, parecía el rey que en realidad era por derecho propio y el guerrero en que el destino lo había convertido.

Nietzsche was right. I won't take the time to tell you who Nietzsche was, but he was right. The world belongs to the strong - to the strong who are noble as well and who do not wallow in the swine-trough of trade and exchange. The world belongs to the true nobleman, to the great blond beasts, to the noncompromisers, to the 'yes-sayers.

Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.

There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Noble man remembers nothing good he did for others.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

in China, where no man gets a title until he is dead; and that is a better way, after all, than with us. When a man does something very good there, they give a title of nobility to his father, who is dead, or to his grandfather.