Quotes About Nobility

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

What I love about Hugh Jackman is he just brings all the elements of my vision of Logan. The pain, the nobility, the duality of his existence.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.

I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

I've decided, because we have a short time here, that those of us that create joy and happiness, that's a really noble thing.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

Comienza con la admiración ante una persona, lo sigue el entusiasmo y culmina con la pasión que nos lleva a la dicha o al desastre. El amor es una prueba que a todos, a los felices y a los desgraciados, nos enoblece.

Personal nobility is greater than any calling, or any reward that it can bring.

Little travelled or exposed to Europeans, who were forced to settle in a special suburb in Moscow, the nobleman mistrusted new or foreign ways. His life was regulated by the archaic rituals of the Church – its calendar arranged to count the years from the notional creation of the world (with the birth of Adam) in 5509 BC.*

The richest dynasties of the aristocracy had all stood near the summit of the Tsarist state during its great territorial expansion between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries and had consequently been rewarded with lavish endowments of fertile land in the south of Russia and Ukraine. These were the Sheremetevs and the Stroganovs, the Demidovs and Davydovs, the Vorontsovs and Yusupovs.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

To keep dignity, and give honor when it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

As I have always said, it's a disaster to discover the humanity of your enemy, his nobility, because then he is not your enemy anymore, he just can't be.

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite.

The nobler type of man is broad-minded and not prejudiced. The inferior man is prejudiced and not broad-minded.

At our noblest we announce to the darkness that we will not be diminished by the brevity of our lives.