Quotes About Nobility

Ce privilege d'etre partout chez soi n'apppartient qu'aux rois, aux filles et aux voleurs

Your nobility looms up like a high mountain, Too high for others to attain to; But they may breathe the rare fragrance That your soul imparts.

The price of greatness is servanthood, sacrifice and humility

My lord," catherine asked,her eyes wide, "do you think that has anything to do with the Ramsay curse?" "Actually, that hadn't occurred to me yet," Leo said, "thank you so much for bringing it to my attention.

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

The noble gases, which reside on the East Coast of the periodic table, are its aristocrats - detached and aloof, never bothering to interact with the rabble of common elements that make up the vast majority of the world.

Oh, but a real princess would know that hard work ennobles the soul,' Rose objected. 'That would be one of the signs.

All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.

A noble minded person is not an implement.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye-to-eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Nahush begot Yayáti: he, Nábhág of happy destiny. Son of Nábhág was Aja: his, The glorious DaÅ›aratha is, Whose noble children boast to be Ráma and Lakshma?, whom we see.

Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly equestrianism

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

Whose merchants are princes.

Seeing and hearing are the only noble things in life. The other senses are plebeian and carnal. The only aristocracy is never to touch. Avoid getting close – that's true nobility.

Indeed, to make tobacco in large enough quantities to satisfy the needs and the quotas from markets in England, the Virginia nobility—the true gentlemen farmers—became accustomed to building and maintaining their vast plantations by the utilization of great numbers of slaves, who cared not only for their masters' fields, but also for their bodies, their horses, their houses, and their children.

The duke of Norfolk remarked to his chaplain, 'You see, we have hindered priests from having wives.' 'And can your grace', the chaplain replied, 'prevent also men's wives from having priests?

Each of us here believes in the concept of honor: that it is man's duty to do that which is right and just, that might alone is not enough.

Sometimes I think we parvenus are more protective of the social pecking order than the nobility.  I suppose it's born out of fear.

But we see something else: the nobility of a soul that has suffered to the point almost of erasure, and still it struggles to be whole, present, giving. Growing in love, deepening in understanding. Cudjo's wisdom becomes so apparent, toward the end of his life, that neighbors ask him to speak to them in parables. Which he does. Offering peace.

the nobility of a soul that has suffered to the point almost of erasure, and still it struggles to be whole, present, giving.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

Doing his own benefactions without hope of a celestial harvest, he thought himself on a nobler plane than religious men whom he always accused for making, as he called it, terms with God.