1.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2.
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
3.
Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king
Ludwig van Beethoven
7.
The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
Alfred Rosenberg
8.
As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.
Gary Zukav
11.
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
Imelda Marcos
13.
Noblest minds are easiest bent.
Homer
15.
We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.
PZ Myers
17.
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem
Jane Porter
19.
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Stendhal
20.
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.
Steven James
21.
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
Boethius
22.
To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.
Thomas Paine
23.
Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.
George Ade
25.
Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
Sophocles
27.
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.
William Shakespeare
28.
We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
29.
He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.
Seneca the Elder
31.
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.
William Wordsworth
34.
I've had such an odd career. I always wanted to be a great actor. I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn - ish - there was a bit of nobility about her. Instead I've always felt like the mutt standing on the sidelines, panting and saying, "Me, too! How about me?" That's just part of my personality.
Sally Field
37.
There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.
Jay McInerney
38.
I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.
Sally Field
40.
Virtue is the only and true nobility.
[Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]
Juvenal
43.
Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.
Iyanla Vanzant
45.
Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche