Quotes About Nobility

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

Holiness exalts people and keeps them on high

Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Honor does not have to be defended.

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.

I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess!

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

True beauty is not in your face or in your dress but in your dignity.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility of love is considered. It's a land of higher ideals.