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Nobility Quotes

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them. Marcel Proust
Emile M. Cioran quote: "Nobility is only in the negation of existence, in a smile that..."
Nobility is only in the negation of existence, in a smile that surveys annihilated landscapes. Emile M. Cioran
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. Riccardo Muti
Jane Porter quote: "Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem."
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem. Jane Porter
Edmund Burke quote: "Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the..."
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. Edmund Burke
civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic. Conditions have got to be thoroughly unstable before the occasion can arise. Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or defended–there, obviously, nobility and heroism have some sense. Aldous Huxley
When a job is undertaken form necessity...the worker is self-consciously aware of the toils and pains he undergoes...But when the job is a labor of love, the sacrifices will present themselves to the worker--strange as it may seem--in the guise of enjoyment. Moralists, looking on at this, will always judge that the former kind of sacrifice is more admirable than the later, because the moralist, whatever he may pretend, has far more respect for pride than for love...I do not mean that there is... Dorothy L. Sayers
O my brothers, your nobility should not look backward but ahead! Exiles shall you be from all father- and forefather-lands! Your children's land shall you love: this love shall be your new nobility? the undiscovered land in the most distant sea. For that I bid your sails search and search. In your children you shall make up for being the children of your fathers: thus shall you redeem all that is past. Friedrich Nietzsche
Imelda Marcos quote: "I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I..."
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. Imelda Marcos
Suffering is a form of egoism. I speak only of myself. I am not talking about her, saying what she was, making an overwhelming portrait (like the one Gide made of Madeleine).(Yet: everything is true: the sweetness, the energy, the nobility, the kindness.) Roland Barthes
Isak Dinesen quote: "The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made..."
The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequealled nobility. Isak Dinesen
Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political ineffiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic. Aldous Huxley
Each step in the development of the bourgeoisie was accompanied by a corresponding political advance in that class. An oppressed class under the sway of the feudal nobility, an armed and self-governing association of medieval commune: here independent urban republic (as Karl Marx
Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or defended--there, obviously, nobility and heroism have some sense. Aldous Huxley
How can you care for a rough man like me?' he asked me. 'How can you love a man who can bring you no lands but the farm a soldier's pension can buy? Who can give your children no title of nobility?' Because love does not do sums, I should have told him. Love makes choices, and then gives its all. Had he seen himself as I first saw him though, he could have had no questions. Tad Williams

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