The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. (Quote by - Claudian)

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Idleness is an appendix to nobility. (Quote by - Robert Burton)

Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship. (Quote by - Dorothy Parker)

His nature is too noble for the world. He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for's power to thunder. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

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. (Quote by - Whitney Young)

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. (Quote by - John Lothrop Motley)

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility. (Quote by - Alfred Rosenberg)

True nobility is exempt from fear. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, Displays distinguished merit, is a noble Of Nature's own creating. (Quote by - James Thomson (1))

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense. (Quote by - James T. Walsh)

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. (Quote by - Riccardo Muti)

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. (Quote by - Sir Philip Sidney)

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies. (Quote by - Edward Young)

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. (Quote by - Boethius)

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. (Quote by - Albert Camus)

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. (Quote by - Rebecca West)

Virtue is the truest nobility. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature! (Quote by - Euripides)

This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He, only in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. (Quote by - Benito Mussolini)

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)