Quotes About Nobility

Monsieur, innocence is its own crown. Innocence has no truck with highness. It is as august in rags as it is draped in the fleur-de-lis.

El soldado de hierro vale tanto como el duque de hierro.

La señora Magloire le llamaba siempre Vuestra Grandeza,un día se levantó de su sillón y fue a la biblioteca a buscar un libro. Estaba éste en una de las tablas más altas del estante, y como el obispo era de corta estatura, no pudo alcanzarlo. Señora Magloire, dijo, traedme una silla, porque mi Grandeza no lo alcanza a esa tabla.

Innocence wears its own crown, Monsieur; it needs no added dignity; it is as sublime in rags as in royal robes.

he, how many beds do you think this hall alone would hold? Monseigneur's dining-room? exclaimed

But if you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy; that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

The sultan of our kingdom, the governor of our province, and the nobles of our city - they all owned slaves. I ignored the teachings of our Messenger, that all men are brothers, and that there is no difference among them save in the goodness of their actions. With neither care nor deliberation, I consigned these three men to a life of slavery and went to the tavern to celebrate.

One finds nobility in the oddest places.

How could Paolo think the queen and her ilk were my people? I had no more relation to them than a pigeon does to a flock of swans – or a vortex of vultures, which the castle's denizens better resembled in both attire and attitude.

Lord Frederick had been a stalwart member of the Montagne court since at least the time of my grandfather; this I knew. Even more, he had the marvellous ability to pull peppermint drops from my ears, which used to entertain me for hours.

The doorkeeper of the Norfolk Club was a man by the name of Cartiledge. As a youth, his heart had been romantic, his head had been poetic and his political affiliations had been conservative to an extreme. He hadn't planned on a life of holding the door open for the aristocracy, and years of bowing to nobility had given him a sense both of what Karl Marx had been on about, and of profound, world-weary depression. Nothing interesting happened at the Norfolk Club.

se vogliamo entrare nella via del piacere con viltà, disprezzo e schiavitù loro e delle loro nazioni, o in quella della virtù con onore, gloria e felicità" SN, 1411

O mundo, que está cheio de orgulhosos, também está cheio de admiradores. O mistério dissipa-se, quando se descobre que a admiração é a maneira mais nobre e pudica de afirmar a superioridade daquele que admira.

Mercadores Quando Napoleão, por despeito, chamava «país de comerciantes» à Inglaterra, ressurgia nele o remoto antagonismo entre o fidalgo que paga com o seu sangue e o lojista que paga com o ouro o sangue dos outros.

There was some nobility in being poor, but absolutely none in being poor because you were an idiot.

He apparently intends to pass the castle on to his eldest daughter.' 'His daughter?' This was news to Pagan. Colin shrugged. 'They're Scots,' he said, as if that would explain it all.

Noble birth is an accident of fortune, noble actions characterise the great.

It is both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and mingle with the great of the earth, counsel with the wise of all time, look into the unlived days with prophets...To become acquainted with real nobility as it walks the pages of history and science and literature is to strengthen character and develop life in its finer meanings.

Within us is something of divinity. One who has this knowledge and permits it to influence his life will not stoop to do a mean or cheap or tawdry thing.

We have to remember that Xi, head of a divided Communist Party, has no faction he can call his own. People often say he heads the "Princelings," but that term merely describes the "second Red generation" or "Red Nobility": the sons and daughters of either former leaders or current serving high officials.

You never look at anything beautiful and holy, or think a pure and noble thought, without being ever after a larger soul.

Be humble, for you are made of dung. Be noble, for you are made of stars.