141 Quotes About Nobility



  • Author Brett Stevens
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    We need to place the noblest and smartest people on top and order everyone else beneath them so that we have stewards instead of profiteers, and make those people wealthy enough that they have no motive to become opportunistic.

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  • Author Lemony Snicket
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    A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting.

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  • Author Sir Walter Scott
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    Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

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  • Author Douglas Adams
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    Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

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  • Author Whitney M. Young Jr.
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    The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

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