Quotes of Nobility - somelinesforyou

“ Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. ”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. ”

- Homer

“ Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ”

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Rebecca West

“ They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. ”

- Sir Philip Sidney

“ Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. ”

- Solon

“ The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. ”

- Whitney Young

“ No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. ”

- Willa Cather

“ Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Leisure with dignity. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ 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

“ Better not to be at all Than not to be noble. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, Displays distinguished merit, is a noble Of Nature's own creating. ”

- James Thomson

“ Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies. ”

- Edward Young

“ 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. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. ”

- Robert Bolt

“ Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. ”

- Solon

“ The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. ”

- Whitney Young

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

- Rebecca West

“ Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Be noble in every thought And in every deed! ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ 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

“ This was the noblest Roman of them all. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ”

- Unknown

“ When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man. ”

- Lord Northcliffe

“ Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men. ”

- Mark Twain

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche
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