#Nobility Quotes

“Thanks to menOf noble minds, is honorable meed.”

“What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.”

“Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues.”

“Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.”

“The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.”

“We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.”

“This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general honest thoughtAnd common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mixd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, This was a man!”

“I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.”

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

“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.”

“Every noble activity makes room for itself.”

“Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.”

“If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.”

“The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.”

“Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.”

“We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.”

“If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.”

“Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.”

“The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.”

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

“In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from us. Though we have gold to give, they demand only copper.”

“To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.”

“All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.”

“True nobility is exempt from fear.”

“The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.”

“There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.”

“It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.”

“It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.”

“The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.”

“The noble must make humility his root.”

“That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.”

“Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.”

“The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.”

“Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.”

“The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.”

“How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!”

“When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.”

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

“To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.”

“Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Eldar Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings.”

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

“There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.”

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

“I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.”

“This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.”

“The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.”

“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.”

“The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.”

“The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he judges 'what harms me is harmful in itself', he knows himself to be that which in general accords honour to things, he creates values.”

“There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).”