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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
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 remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.
Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!
In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.
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.
Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king
Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.
Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
I am joined with no foot land-rakers, no long-staff, sixpenny strikers, none of these mad, mustachio purple-hued maltworms, but with nobility and tranquillity.
....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.
The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.
The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.
Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.
What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.
Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.
If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood.
The great majority of the nobility and gentry of England clung to the doctrine and ceremonies of the ancient church, and yet were united in determination to oppose the papal claims.
Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution.
Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.
Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages.
Super-heroes were created to represent the best in all of us. We should aspire to match their nobility, not their ability to shoot big chrome guns.
Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.
First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.
A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.
For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.
Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.
I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.
Virtue is the only and true nobility.
[Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice.
I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot.
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
What I love about Hugh Jackman is he just brings all the elements of my vision of Logan. The pain, the nobility, the duality of his existence.
The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem
Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.
Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.