Quotes about Nobility

Kind hearts are more than coronets / And simple faith than Norman blood.

'Tis only noble to be good.Kind hearts are more than coronets,And simple faith than Norman blood.

Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't—oppose the popular voice. But we will know what you have done. And in your heart, so will you. And that is more than heroic. It is noble.

REST.—If a man should be able to assent to this doctrine as he ought, that we are all sprung from God in an especial manner, and that God is the father both of men and of gods, I suppose that he would never have any ignoble or mean thoughts about himself. But if Cæsar (the emperor) should adopt you, no one could endure your arrogance; and if you know that you are the son of Zeus, will you not be elated?

In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness.

How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.

The nobility of what humans could be capable of, if only they weren't human.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

If all the other noble qualities of life were placed in the balance against it, loyalty would outweigh them all.