Quotes About Nobility

in addition to eminence, superiority has two other qualities or rather three—simplicity, clarity and generosity.

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.

There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

When your cause is noble, you shall never know fear.

Time passes, people move...Like a river's flow, it never ends...A childish mind will turn to noble ambition...Young love will become deep affection...The clear water's surface reflects growth... -Sheik

Sometimes happiness doesnt come from money or fame or power. Sometimes happiness comes from good friends and family and the quiet nobility of leading a good life.

To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song.

had placed myself on the wrong side of her, she pivoted round me so skillfully that I found her arm resting on my own and fell quite naturally into her rhythm of precise and noble deportment. I yielded to this all the more readily because the Guermantes attached no more importance to it than a truly learned man does to his learning, with the result that one is less intimidated in his company than in that of an ignoramus;

Não tinha à minha frente mais que um senhor de casaca que se ia afastando; mas eu manobrava em seu redor, como um refletor defeituoso, e sem conseguir aplicá-lo exatamente sobre ele, o pensamento de que era o príncipe de Saxe e ia ver a princesa de Guermantes.

The similarity between the evanescent greetings of the Duchesse de Lambresac and those of my grandmother's friends had begun to interest me, by demonstrating that in narrow and enclosed social circles, whether among the petty bourgeoisie or the high nobility, the old ways persist, enabling us to rediscover, like an archaeologist, how people may have been brought up, and the element of soul that it reflects, in the days of the Vicomte d'Arlincourt and Loïsa Puget.

E depois, como tinha sobre a nobreza e a natureza dos nomes com que se formam os títulos as noções muito vagas que são as de muita gente que não é ascensorista , tanto mais verossímil lhe parecera o nome de Camembert porque, sendo esse queijo universalmente conhecido, não era de espantar que se tirasse um marquesado de tão glorioso renome, a menos que não fosse o marquesado que emprestara sua celebridade ao queijo.

That fellow Argencourt is well born but ill bred, a worse-than-second-rate diplomat, a loathsome husband and a womanizer, a double-faced stage character. He's one of those men who are incapable of understanding but perfectly capable of destroying the high things in life.

Those who have minds have no regard for birth.

This was indeed what was meant by nobility, by intelligence of diction. Now I could appreciate the merits of a broad, poetical, powerful interpretation, or rather it was to this that those epithets were conventionally applied, but only as we give the names of mars, venus, saturn to planets which have nothing mythological about them. We feel in one world, we think, we give names to things in another; between the two we can establish a certain correspondence, but not bridge the gap

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows they to be noble.

I have said before, says the Soul, that I lack nothing, because my beloved has from all time sufficient, 2 out of his just nobility, and will have enough for evermore. What then should I lack? I do not love myself, or him, or his works, 3 except only for him. And what he has, which I do not have and shall not have, is more my own than what I do and shall have in my possession from him himself.