Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old nobility quotes, nobility sayings, and nobility proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.Ernest Hemingway
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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.Albert Camus
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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.William Shakespeare
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Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.Riccardo Muti
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.Jean Rostand
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.Solon
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It matters not from what stock we are descended so long as we have virtue; for that alone is true Nobility.Wellins Calcott
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Noble persons have the best capacities; for whether they give themselves to goodness or ungraciousness, they do in either excel, as none of the common sort of people can come anything nigh them.Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nobility is kept alive and strong when it is attached to wealth, and without money it is like a dead thing, for those who are in need have often to turn their hands to vile things.Martin De Viciana
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Nobility without virtue is a fine setting without a gem.Jane Porter
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Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source, than at its termination.Charles Caleb Colton
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A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip: there is nothing good of him but that which is underground.Samuel Butler
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If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.Plato
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Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.Charles Caleb Colton
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The essence of true nobility is neglect of self.James A. Froude
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Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.Carlo Goldoni
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New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.Francis Bacon
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To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.Mark Twain
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The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.Georges Bataille
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Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.Aristotle
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Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.Alan Weisman
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True nobility is exempt from fear.Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.William Shakespeare
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My nobility begins in me, but yours ends in you.Iphicrates
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Idleness is an appendix to nobility.Robert Burton
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What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?Theodore Roethke
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I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.Betty Greene
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If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.John Lancaster Spalding
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To men and women there falls the task of exploring truth with their reason, and in this their nobility consists.Pope John Paul II
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less, So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.James Russell Lowell