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
Jose Ortega y Gasset 
Napoleon Bonaparte 
Stendhal 
Thaddeus Stevens 
Camille Paglia 
Imelda Marcos All Nobility Quotes
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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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
Theodore Bikel
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The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
Alfred Rosenberg
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For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.
James T. Walsh
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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Albert Camus
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke
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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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