NOBILITY QUOTES

quotations about nobility

It matters not from what stock we are descended so long as we have virtue; for that alone is true Nobility.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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For new nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.

FRANCIS BACON

The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon

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There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE

Short Studies on Great Subjects

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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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Better not to be at all
Than not be noble.

ALFRED TENNYSON

The Princess

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The noblest names in history are those, the records of whose lives are written in their own blood. To suffer is grander than to do: this has passed into a proverb. For illustrious lives we ransack, not palaces, but prisons.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths

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Nobility does not consist in magnificence of dress or eminence of rank. Art thou virtuous? Thou art sufficiently noble.

CAO-TSOU

attributed, Day's Collacon


Noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows they to be noble.

MARGARET ATWOOD

Hag-Seed

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It is a great question that is still not resolved, whether nobility is prescribed or whether it is acquired irrevocably from the right of several generations.

GILLES-ANDRE DE LA ROQUE

Traite de la noblesse


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

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Torquato Tasso

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Nobility is a lie. A pretense that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do.

ANTHONY RYAN

Tower Lord


I will bow myself before him who is influenced by a noble conviction, and who only desires that which is conducive to good, be he prince or man of the people.

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

The Story of My Life

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Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

ALBERT PIKE

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry


Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Sonnet IV

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The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics

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If antiquity be the test of nobility, as many affirm and none deny ... then cheese is a very noble thing.

HILAIRE BELLOC

First and Last

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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,
So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"Yussouf"

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Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

CARLO GOLDONI

Pamela


Nobility is kept alive and strong when it is attached to wealth, and without money it is like a dead thing, for those who are in need have often to turn their hands to vile things.

MARTIN DE VICIANA

attributed, The European Nobility in the Eighteenth Century


His nature is too noble for the world:
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
Or Jove for's power to thunder.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Coriolanus

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