Nobility Quotes - Page 2

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

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

I've had such an odd career. I always wanted to be a great actor. I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn - ish - there was a bit of nobility about her. Instead I've always felt like the mutt standing on the sidelines, panting and saying, "Me, too! How about me?" That's just part of my personality.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

There is a nobility in the world of manners.

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

One finds nobility in the oddest places.