Quotes About Nobility

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.

Live in such a good way that if the devil happened to come to your way, he would change his direction.

You speak no honest speeches from pure heart. You do no noble deeds in the gleaming sunlight.

They might permit a king to burn their fields or rape their daughters, as long as payment was made. But you did not touch a man's sons. For this, the nobles would riot. We all knew the rules; we clung to them to avoid the anarchy that was always a hairsbreadth away. Blood feud. The servants made the sign against evil.

This was no slouchy prince of wine halls and debauchery, as Easterners were said to be.

Then the boy appeared. His name was Clysonymus, and he was the son of a nobleman who was often at the palace. Older, larger, and unpleasantly fleshy.

The good to others kindness show, And from them no return exact; The best and greatest men, they know, Thus ever nobly love to act.*

What nobler thing can be accomplished than the illumination of ignorance? What greater task is there than the joyous labor of service? And what nobler man can there be than that Mason who serves his Lights, and is himself a light unto his fellow men?

Jo ja havia comprès que sempre cal actuar a despit dels qui no s'ho mereixen, que cal sacrificar-se pels altres, àduch pels qui us trairan; que allò que compta és la propia noblesa, no la traïció dels altres.

Mientras dure la lucha, que durará tal vez toda mi vida, no me conviene cultivar los placeres de los sentidos, ¿te das cuenta?, porque son, de verdad, secundarios para mí. El gran placer es otro, el de saber que estoy al servicio de lo más noble, que es… bueno… todas mis ideas…

warfare was primarily an aristocratic pursuit.

their ealdormen and their thegns, who in turn called upon the services of their own followings of well-equipped warriors.

he travelled through the lands of Charles the Bald,

Charles the Bald, however, insisted that his daughter should receive the full royal honours.

was given a scarlet cloak, a jewelled belt, and a Saxon sword with a golden scabbard.

There was a time when my ancestors were proud of the title of chamberlain or butler to the King," said the Baron. "There was also a time," replied Morel haughtily, "when my ancestors cut off your ancestors' heads.

Princes know themselves to be princes, and are not snobs; besides, they believe themselves to be so far above everything that is not of their blood royal that noblemen and commoners appear, in the depths beneath them, to be practically on a level.

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification, But his desire to know the truth was stronger, and seemed to him nobler than his desire for her.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rival ship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

A knight without mercy is without honor.

And of course they were descended from the ancient kings of Ireland, as every Irishman is.