Top Nobility Quotes
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
Riccardo Muti
Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
Flavius Josephus
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia
Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.
Thaddeus Stevens
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
Viktor Korchnoi 
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In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
John Lothrop Motley
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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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Stendhal
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True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
Theodore Roethke
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Popular Nobility Authors
William ShakespeareMarcus Tullius CiceroAlbert CamusNapoleon BonaparteEdmund BurkeArthur SchopenhauerGeorg C. LichtenbergMiguel De CervantesJean RostandTheodore BikelJose Ortega y GassetRebecca WestCamille Paglia StendhalMatthew Simpson
Benito MussoliniJohn Lothrop MotleyImelda MarcosRobert BurtonJames T. WalshTheodore RoethkeBarbara Grizzuti HarrisonAlfred RosenbergElijah Wood SolonRiccardo MutiJane PorterFlavius JosephusViktor KorchnoiThaddeus Stevens
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