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.
Nobility Quotes (70 Quotes)
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to you previous self.
War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is wretched beyond description and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Whatever is won in war, it is loss the veteran remembers.
Being asked by a young nobleman, what was become of the gallantry and military spirit of the old English nobility, (Johnson) replied, Why, my Lord, I'll tell you what is become of it it is gone into the city to look for a fortune
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.
New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.
Published this month, the novel has been hailed as a remarkable debut, both for its gripping subject and for what Publishers Weekly called its extraordinarily original voice. ... Its nuances may not be subtle, but its nobility is impossible to miss.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Hart also wants Democrats to stand up and say they made a mistake when they voted for the war and to beg the American people to forgive them. What's at stake, ... is not just the leadership of the Democratic Party and the nation but our nation's honor, our nobility, and our principles.
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
It's good to know that far into the future people will come to this place and learn of Howard's career and his deep belief in the nobility of public service,
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes yourdestiny, and your hourbyhour mental conduct produces power for change in yourlife. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as wellas your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought isgoing.
If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.
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.
In Europe, the word peasant was a term of contempt used by the nobility, but the Chinese scholars used to fancy themselves rustics. Agriculture was viewed as a noble occupation buying and selling, by contrast were considered nonproductive. One of the founders of the Chinese civilization was said to have been the venerable She Nung, the 'Divine Farmer.' A scholar often affected to be nothing more than an 'old farmer' or a 'simple fisherman' and referred to his elegant villa as 'my thatched hut.' This Rosseau-like feeling for the country life is an important undercurrent in the scholarly tradition.
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
True nobility is exempt from fear.