(65 quotes found)
“I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.”
Imelda Marcos
“To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.”
Benjamin Franklin
“There are obligations to nobility. [Lat., Noblesse oblige.]”
Duc De Levis
“Idleness is an appendix to nobility”
Robert Burton
“A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince”
Edward Gibbon
“They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he is not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?”
Ronald Duncan
“Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem”
Jane Porter
“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
Edmund Burke
“It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.”
Stendhal
