Quotes About Nobility

Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right. Freedom is the ability to choose and celebrate the-best-version-of-yourself in every moment. Freedom without discipline is impossible.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily. There is nothing in the world capable of such spontaneous up-lifting, of such speedy ennoblement; nothing that offers more scrupulous obedience to the pure and noble command it receives.

This invisible and divine goodness, of which I only speak here because of its being one of the surest and nearest signs of the unceasing activity of our soul, this invisible and divine goodness ennobles, in decisive fashion, all that it has unconsciously touched.

It is the privilege of nobility to condescend.

He is the son of an anointed and consecrated king, begotten on a lawful wife while he was still king.

Before her, with sharp blue eyes and perfectly coiffed blond hair, was Josephine Marie Elizabeth Cavendish, Her Grace, the Duchess of Durham, widow of the fifth duke, and aunt to the Cavendish siblings. One did not call her Josie. Amelia had asked.

He almost thought of being a boyfriend as like being a duke or an earl; it was as if he had land to oversee now, and ribbons to cut.

Princess Joan liked watching The People. Indeed, she liked The People, provided they gave her the respect she was owed.

All men have in themselves that which is truly honorable. Only they do not think of it.

I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded.

The Swedish royal family's legitimacy is even more tenuous. The current king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, is descended neither from noble Viking blood nor even from one of their sixteenth-century warrior kings, but from some random French bloke.

Madem tüm seçenekler saçma, o zaman gelin en asilini seçelim." - Flaubert

22Fidalgo derives from filho d'algo—literally, the "son of somebody"—though it later became a generic term for nobility.

There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?

I know it sounds foolishly old fashioned, but I'm stuck with this idea that there's something dignified and noble about facing your enemy and looking him in the eye before you thrust a saber in his heart.

The Americans are right: there should not be taxation unless the people consent to it. And it should be fair, which means the nobility and clergy should be taxed as well.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

There is an old Italian saying: "Il lavoro nobilita I'uomo, e lo rende simile alle bestie"; or, "Work gives man nobility, and turns him into an animal.

I think this nobility argument or a greater nation for a persecuted people is a pretext to eject all the unwanted foreigners.

Wealthy is he who is rich in his nobles. Speak truth in your house.

Lo, gold, lapis lazuli, silver, and turquoise, Carnelian, amethyst, ibht- stone and Are strung on the necks of female slaves. Noblewomen roam the land. Ladies say, "We want to eat!" Lo, noblewomen, Their bodies suffer in rags, Their hearts shrink from greeting [each other]. Lo, chests of ebony are smashed.