#nobility

Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help." I was too flummoxed to tell him I hadn't expected help to come so fast. Miracles aren't for the likes of me, didn't Nestor know that? Only the nobility gets them. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#speechless #stunned #nobility

I am a Count, Not a Saint. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#nobility

True worth is being not seeming ↗

— Alice Cary; Nobility

#nobility

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. ↗

— Albert Camus

#courage #indifference #nobility #profound #real

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

The army is the true nobility of our country. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#country #nobility #our #true

True nobility is exempt from fear. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#fear #nobility #true

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

— Edmund Burke

#civil #graceful #nobility #order #ornament

Idleness is an appendix to nobility. ↗

— Robert Burton

#idleness #nobility

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. ↗

— Thaddeus Stevens

#children #enter #estates #forth #handle