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Benito Mussolini
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
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Boethius
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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Claudian (Claudianus)
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. [Lat., Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.]
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Claudian (Claudianus)
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. [Lat., Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.]
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Daniel Moynihan
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.
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Dorothy Parker
Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.
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Edward Young
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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Euripides
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
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Francis Bacon
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.
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Indian Proverb
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
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James Russell Lowell
Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
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James Thomson
Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, Displays distinguished merit, is a noble Of Nature's own creating.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them. [Ger., Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an, Und weiss sie fest zu halten, wie ihr thut.]
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John Dryden
Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind, And therefore cast into these noble moulds.
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John Dryden
Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind, And therefore cast into these noble moulds.
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Rebecca West
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
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Robert Bolt
The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.
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