29 Quotes Tagged: nobility

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

The stamp of royal birth is an unmistakable Miracle; and when those who bear a noble name Are worthy of it, the mircable is greater still.

And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds.

. . . tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they [the nobility] were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious.

Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest interest in the strangers sitting all about them, amidst whom M. de Stermaria adopted the manner one has in the buffet-car of a train, grim, hurried, stand-offish, brusque, fastidious and spiteful, surrounded by other passengers whom one has never seen before, whom one will never see again and towards whom the only conceivable way of behaving is to make sure that they keep away from one's cold chicken and stay out of one's chosen corner-seat.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

What a great advantage to be of noble birth, since it gives a man of eighteen the standing, recognition and respect that another man might not earn before he was fifty. That means winning thirty years’ start with no effort.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

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

"Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one."

There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.