Quotes of: Nobility Keyword

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

Theodore Roethke

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

Albert Camus

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy

Boethius

A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.

Hazrat Ali

Bud Fox: There's no nobility in poverty.

Wall Street

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

Riccardo Muti

[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, know...

The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

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

Jean Rostand

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

Ethics

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

Iyanla Vanzant

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

Rebecca West

This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be understood in the same sense as when we say we are subject to natural disasters, diseases, and all ...

The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know how they managed to make this law in their favour, or who exactly it was who gave them a greater license to sin than is allowed to us; and ...

The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

John Lothrop Motley

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

Jane Porter

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

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

Edmund Burke

You are new here, so I will explain. In this land, nobility comes not from one’s fathers or a title or from the land one owns, but from one’s actions.” His voice was hard-edged, and his words seemed harsh to her. “The MacKinnon brothers are t...

Defiant

Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless earth in order that we could be born out of living flesh. And what's so important about this priority in cr...

The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.

Richie Sambora