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Noblemen Quotes

Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

George Herbert
Editors, Clothes, Noblemen
George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.331

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

Anthony Trollope
Gentleman, Literature, Noblemen
Anthony Trollope (2015). “Doctor Wortle's School”, p.183, Booklassic

Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

Nathaniel Parker Willis
Prejudice, Noblemen, Towns
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1860). “Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson”, p.198

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

Josh Billings
Noblemen, Wealth, Pedigree

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

George Bernard Shaw
Civilization, Bourgeoisie, Noblemen
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1927, e-artnow

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Brandon Sanderson
Noblemen, Lists, Holy
Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.200, Macmillan

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

William Hazlitt
Kings, Gentleman, Noblemen
William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

Francis Bacon
Rewards, Noblemen, Cleanliness

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