Quotes About Nobility

A man who sacrifices himself must be a decent chap.

If there's one thing this world needs more of, it's thoughtful Nobles," the left hand jeered.

For better or worse, she was the lady Soraya. And the lady Soraya would never dream of missing the warm bulk of Casia's body between her and the hearth, or the comforting drone of Ludo's snores. Or the wry laughter of a slave... a slave, for Azura's sake! The lady Soraya needed no one. The lady Soraya cried herself to sleep.

My lord, what do you call a whore when she is a knight's daughter?" "Ah," the cardinal says, entering into the problem. "To her face, 'my lady.

Well, you know the form,' Bedingfield says. 'She lives in that room and has her ladies – those ones – cook for her over the fire. You knock and go in, and if you call her Lady Katherine she kicks you out, and if you call her Your Highness she lets you stay. So I call her nothing. You, I call her. As if she were a girl that scrubs the steps.

They arrived on a Sunday, two vengeful grandees: the Duke of Norfolk a bright-eyed hawk

Now listen to me, Crumb. If I say I need to see the Tudor, no blacksmith's boy will say me nay." "He may weld you, my lord," Richard Riche says.

The living result of the queen's labors is the diminutive Mary—not really a whole princess, perhaps two-thirds of one.

Call yourself d'Anton,' he advised. 'It makes a better impression.' On whom? Well, not on the real nobility; but so much civil litigation is pressed by the massed ranks of the socially insecure. 'So what if they all know it's spurious?' Maître Vinot said. 'It shows the right kind of urges. Have comprehensible ambitions, dear boy. Keep us comfortable.

Slicing the cranium of her husband, the Marquis of Exeter, and stirring a forefinger in the murk of his intentions.

que el rey les otorgará la merced de muerte por el hacha, que no aumentará su deshonra; aunque entre los jurados se murmura que a Smeaton se le ahorcará porque, al ser hombre de bajo nacimiento, no hay ningún honor que proteger.

He gives himself a glass of wine, and another to Wyatt; says, 'Gardiner has people outside the gate, watching who comes and goes. This is a city house, it is not a fortress – but if anybody's here who shouldn't be, my household does enjoy kicking them out. We quite like fighting. I'd prefer to put my past behind me, but I'm not allowed to. Uncle Norfolk keeps reminding me I was a common soldier, and not even in his army.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Then what the hell did you become an imperial noble for!?" "Not sure, but not to surround myself with a bevy of harem girls." "Your values leave me scandalized and appalled.

You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing.

No, I cannot see myself serving Balekin.

I am not drinking that," Jasper said. "I am a deWinter. We do not froth.

Surely Nicasia would expect more of Cardan's mother than the thin gruel of emotion she has served her son.

Do you think he will protect you now? You're useless. The heir to Elfhame has no reason to spend any further time with an untutored savage of a girl. But think, you wouldn't remember him. You wouldn't even have to remember yourself.' 'I'm not half as practical as you suppose,' Oak says. 'I like many useless things. I've been called useless myself from time to time.

All this nobility is really nauseating.

The hearts of the noble may be turned [by entreaty].

What place indeed is there in the shallow petty frivolous thing called society for noble thoughts and feelings?

He became...the ideal of that virtue which delights in its own work...doing everything with simplicity and dignity, for he seemed to realize that his objective added nobility to everything he did.