Nobility Quotes

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

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.

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

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

There is no nobility with bad manners.

There's no nobility in poverty.

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.

Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.

We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

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

Noblest minds are easiest bent.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

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

To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

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

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.

Virtue alone is true nobility.

Let a man nobly live or nobly die.