Nobility Quotes

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
William Shakespeare

True, Sweet, Mercy

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.
Charlie Sheen

Life, Judge, Focus

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Albert Camus

Courage, Real, Profound

The army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon Bonaparte

True, Country, Army

True nobility is exempt from fear.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fear, True, Exempt

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke

Society, Order, Civil

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Debt, Willing, Shows

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Character, Others, Company

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Future, Children, Awesome

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West

Life, Struggle, Soul

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Stendhal

Style, Writers, Forty

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
Imelda Marcos

Human, Born, Marie

Virtue is the truest nobility.
Miguel de Cervantes

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.
Benito Mussolini

War, Courage, Alone

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia

Change, Beauty, Men

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Idea, Seem, Filthy

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
Jane Porter

Fine, Virtue, Gem

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Jean Rostand

Human, Strictly

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.
Iyanla Vanzant

Experience, Everyone, Full

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon

Trust, Character, Put

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Elijah Wood

Men, True, Nothing

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
Theodore Bikel

Battle, Soul, Action

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

God, Future, True

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.
Joaquin Phoenix

Character, Him, Audience

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.
Sally Field

Wanted, Her, Bit

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
Matthew Simpson

Work, God, Honest

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.
Diane Lane

Mother, Film, Three

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.
Thaddeus Stevens

Children, Humble, Proud

I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class.
Julian Fellowes

Fact, Used, Class

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