Nobility Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

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

Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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