Nobility Quotes - Page 5

• There is a nobility in the world of manners.

  Friedrich Schiller

  World, Manners

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Natural, Superiority

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.243

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

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Nature, Kindness, Men

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• And nobility will not be able to help you with your love; Love does not know how to cede to ancestral images.

  Propertius

  Love, Doe, Able

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• Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Aristocracy, Piety

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.82, Ravenio Books

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• The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

  John D. MacDonald

  Philosophy, Touching, World

  John D MacDonald (2013). “Bright Orange for the Shroud: Introduction by Lee Child: Travis McGee”, p.5, Random House

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• A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

  Jacques d'Amboise

  Art, Untamed, Youth

  Jacques D'Amboise (2011). “I Was a Dancer”, p.11, Knopf

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• Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

  Francis Bacon

  Distance, Eye, Men

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.456

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• 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.

  Bartolomeo d'Alviano

  Army, Fighting, Thinking

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• Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of Lords in England, that still represent the English feudal nobility in terms of positions above regional representatives, who are in the end the representatives supposedly elected by the population. Many mechanisms exist, but they are mechanisms to preserve the power of the wealthy classes, of the bourgeois classes that hold the power and rights above the rest of the society.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Class, Rights, House

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people.

  Archibald Rutledge

  Spiritual, Character, Heart

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• Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

  Dejan Stojanovic

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Giving, Accustomed

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• And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.

  Socrates

  Courage, Cheer, Journey

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• We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Hate, Health, Anxiety

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• There is no nobility with bad manners.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Manners, Bad Manners

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• You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair . . . Yet at the same time you shake off your past, fight reality, and never lose your nobility.

  SebastiAn

  Dream, Giving Up, Fighting

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Nature, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1962). “The Portable Emerson”

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• There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Noble, Earth

  The Prelude bk. 11, l. 393 (1850) See John Dewey 1; Hamer 1; Lyndon Johnson 5; Lyndon Johnson 6; Lyndon Johnson 8; Wallas 1

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• (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.

  John Milton

  Life, Thinking, Mind

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 64

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• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Commitment, Writing

  Albert Camus (1960). “Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-seven. [Translated by Justin O'Brien”

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• Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Selfish, Philosophical, Vanity

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• 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.

  Kedar Joshi

  Heart, Eye, Men

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• In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures... destroyed all balances and counterpoises which serve to fix a state and give it steady direction, and then they melted down the whole into one incongrous mass of mob and democracy... the people, along with their political servitude, have thrown off the yoke of law and morals.

  Edmund Burke

  Summer, Art, Army

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• After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.

  Annie Oakley

  Country, Eye, Land

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