Top 339 Nobility Quotes & Sayings

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

You think that commanding an army grants you nobility? Nobility comes from fighting besides your soldiers, not kidnapping a woman to cheat your way out of battle.

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

There is a nobility in the world of manners.

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

There's no nobility in poverty.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

The highest nobility lies in taming your own mind.

Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

The nobility of the human spirit grows harder for me to believe in. War, zealotry, greed, malls, narcissism. I see a backhanded nobility in excessive, impractical outlays of cash prompted by nothing loftier than a species joining hands and saying “I bet we can do this.” Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government red-lining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let’s squander some on Mars. Let’s go out and play.

Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.

Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not noble, then it's not very good... Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

There is no nobility with bad manners.

Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.

Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.

One finds nobility in the oddest places.

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy.

Virtue alone is true nobility.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.

Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.

There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.

There are two classes of women in Soviet Russia. There is the professional class, which has taken the place of the nobility and includes government officials, artists, doctors, composers and writers as well as former members of the old nobility whose sympathy is with the Soviets, and also the peasant class.

In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes there is a certain kind of nobility of a group of materials literally of the earth, which had a certain nobility of presence, but is very different from the materials we have now.

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.

There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and this is what is decisive has never been lost, despite times of decline, so long as the Nordic blood was still alive. Heroism, in fact, took many forms, from the warrior nobility of Siegfried or Hercules to the intellectual nobility of Copernicus and Leonardo , the religious nobility of Eckehart and Lagarde, or the political nobility of Frederick the Great and Bismarck , and its substance has remained the same.

Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.