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.
?Francis Bacon
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to
nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
?Imelda Marcos
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and
nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than
for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion
for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.
?Daniel Moynihan
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward
adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
?Rebecca West
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.
?Dorothy Parker
The nobility of England, my lord, would have
snored through the Sermon on the Mount.
?Robert Bolt
There is nothing noble in being superior to
some other person. The true nobility is in
being superior to your previous self.
?Indian Proverb
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.
?Benito Mussolini
