| Author |
Quotes |
| 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. |
| Boethius | If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. |
| Claudian | The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Duc de Levis | There are obligations to nobility. |
| Edward Young | Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies. |
| Euripides | O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature! |
| Goldoni | Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. |
| Imelda Marcos | I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. |
| Indian Proverb | There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. |
| James Anthony Froude | There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease. |
| James Thomson | Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, Displays distinguished merit, is a noble Of Nature's own creating. |
| Rebecca West | Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. |
| Robert Bolt | The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. |
| 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. |
| Horatius Flaccus | A noble pair of brothers. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Be noble in every thought And in every deed! |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds. |
| 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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