My Lady… had yet to learn that money cannot buy refinement of nature, that rank does not always confer nobility, and that true breeding makes itself felt in spite of drawbacks.
Noble Quotes
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. (Othello)
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
True nobility is exempt from fear. (Henry VI)
Nobleman, n. Nature’s provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.
Despite the equality which democracy seeks, it nevertheless is in constant struggle to keep up with the Joneses. We boast that we have no royalty in America, and we disdain all that it implies, but what American has ever been invited to the Court of St. James who has not accepted? And though we frown […]
He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.
It’s noble to be good. It’s nobler to teach others to be good, and less trouble.
No one can build her security on the nobleness of another person.
The noblest work of God? Man. Who found it out? Man.
