Quotes About Nobility

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

U was te? s? dobrzy, m?drzy, starzy ludzie. -Bywali u nas szlachetni, rozumni, godni starzy ludzie.

Where Sir Simon had got her with child.

It takes an awfully good man... to beat no man at all." - Tillie

Lady Middleton, who owned a chair purported to have been in the queen's bedroom at Versailles, caused a scene when she sent it to her bank and insisted that it be stored in the vault.

There is nothing stronger and nobler than when man and wife are of one heart and mind in a house. A grief to their foes, and to their friends great joy. But their own hearts know it best.

if the situation of the working classes was improved in the manner he hoped, that might demonstrate to the nobility that poverty was not innate.

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

The greater man the greater courtesy.

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.

A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.