#nobility

I am a Count, Not a Saint. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#nobility

True worth is being not seeming ↗

— Alice Cary; Nobility

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Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#aristocracy #birthright #meritocracy #nobility #talent

There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it. ↗

— Charles Durning

#anyone #bitter #destruction #frustrated #go

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#debt #increase #man #much #nobility

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#being #complement #equally #first #last

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance. ↗

— Theodore Roethke

#madness #nobility #odds #soul

Virtue is the truest nobility. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#truest #virtue

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her. ↗

— Sally Field

#bit #her #i #nobility #wanted