Nobility
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Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 559-60.
- If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
- From the Latin of Böethius.
- Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.
- The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.
- Claudianus, De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augustii Panegyris, 305.
- Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven;
This is the porcelain clay of human kind,
And therefore cast into these noble moulds.- John Dryden, Don Sebastian, Act I, scene 1.
- O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
- Euripides, Ion, 238.
- There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
- James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects, Calvinism.
- Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an,
Und weiss sie fest zu halten, wie ihr thut.- A noble soul alone can noble souls attract;
And knows alone, as ye, to hold them. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Torquato Tasso, I. 1. 59.
- A noble soul alone can noble souls attract;
- Il sangue nobile è un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.
- Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
- Carlo Goldoni, Pamela (c. 1750), I. 6.
- Par nobile fratrum.
- A noble pair of brothers.
- Horace, Satires, II. 3. 243.
- Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
In proud display; yet take this truth from me—
Virtue alone is true nobility!- Juvenal, Satire VIII, line 29. Gifford's translation. "Virtus sola nobilitat," is the Latin of last line.
- Noblesse oblige.
- There are obligations to nobility.
- Comte de Laborde, in a notice to the French Historical Society in 1865, attributes the phrase to Duc de Levis, who used it in 1808, apropos of the establishment of the nobility.
- Be noble in every thought
And in every deed!- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus, The Golden Legend (1872), Part II.
- Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874), Part III. The Student's Tale. Emma and Eginhard, line 82.
- Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.- James Russell Lowell, Sonnet IV.
- Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.- Lord John Manners, England's Trust, Part III, line 227.
- Be aristocracy the only joy:
Let commerce perish—let the world expire.- Modern Gulliver's Travels (Ed. 1796), p. 192.
- His nature is too noble for the world:
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
Or Jove for's power to thunder.- William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607-08), Act III, scene 1, line 255.
- This was the noblest Roman of them all:
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Cæsar;
He only, in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.- William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act V, scene 5, line 68.
- Better not to be at all
Than not be noble.- Alfred Tennyson, The Princess (1847), Part II, line 79.
- Whoe'er amidst the sons
Of reason, valor, liberty, and virtue
Displays distinguished merit, is a noble
Of Nature's own creating.- James Thomson, Coriolanus, Act III, scene 3.
- Titles are marks of honest men, and wise:
The fool or knave that wears a title lies.- Edward Young, Love of Fame (1725-28), Satire I, line 145.