Nobility Quotes

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

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.

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

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

There is no nobility with bad manners.

There's no nobility in poverty.

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

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.

Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.

Noblest minds are easiest bent.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

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

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

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

True nobility is exempt from fear.

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

To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

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

Virtue alone is true nobility.

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.

Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

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

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

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

Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

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.

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

One finds nobility in the oddest places.

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

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

There is a nobility in the world of manners.

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.