Quotes About Nobility

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

It is the lowered head that makes her seem less noble than, say, a horse, or a deer surprised in the woods. More exactly, it is her lowered head and neck. As she stands still, the top of her head is level with her back, or even a little lower, and so she seems to be hanging her head in discouragement, embarrassment, or shame. There is at least a suggestion of humility and dullness about her. But all these suggestions are false.

The noblest names in history are those, the records of whose lives are written in their own blood. To suffer is grander than to do: this has passed into a proverb. For illustrious lives we ransack, not palaces, but prisons.

Everything we do, talí, we do with honor.

But is it an honest living?" Alec persisted, clinging to his last shred of resolve. "Most of those who employ me are great lords or nobles." "It sounds like a pretty dangerous line of work," Alec remarked, aware that once again Seregil had side-stepped the question. "That's the spice of it, though," cried Seregil. "And you can end up rich!" "Or on the end of a rope?" Seregil chuckled. "Have it your way.

I rather doubt that anyone tells Lord Hylton what to do," she said dryly.

The chief extant monument of feudalism is the stone castle.

Among the nation's early rulers was Václav (in English, Wenceslas), a devout Christian who incurred resentment among the pagan nobility due to his kindness toward the poor.

It seems to me if an anointed king can be set aside, a serf-born woman can marry a baron's son. As rebellions against God's lawful order go, ours will be a small one. ---Addis de Valence

If good Patroclus had been there he might have said, Sir, you are no true hero, no Heracles, no Jason. You speak no honest speeches from pure heart. You do no noble deeds in the gleaming sunlight. But I had met Jason. And I knew what sort of deeds could be done in the sun's sight. I said nothing.

This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector

The Only Thing in the World Worth a Damn is the Strange, Touching, Pathetic, Awesome Nobility of the Individual Human Spirit.

Humo de hidalguía, la cabeza vana y la bolsa vacía».

The lords realized that her position as the future queen of France

the Duke of Guise usurped his seat at dinner.

Diane de Poitiers, the constable's ally, was scarcely treated better.

At the ceremony for Dudley's ennoblement, Darnley bore the sword of state

when the celebrations were ended, Darnley would be made king of Scotland

Gossip said he was a royal bastard.

The Guises were one of the most powerful noble families in France.

The Guise family's ascendancy was over.

AT EIGHT O'CLOCK on the fatal Saturday evening, Darnley led Lord Ruthven and an accomplice through his private apartments

he started out with relatively little. He was born into the family of a respectable but forgettable Roman senator in 63 B.C.E.

Let the schools teach the nobility of labour and the beauty of human service: but the superstitions of ages past? Never!