Any noble cause will encounter its share of setbacks. The strength of that cause is measured in how the men who fight for it respond. We refuse to give up, which is why we will prevail eventually.
D.B. JacksonTags: strength character nobility cause
It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts; as was Hepzibah of this native inapplicability, so to speak, of the Pyncheons to any useful purpose.
Nathaniel HawthorneTags: nobility boast vain brag useless-talents lazyness high-class-style house-of-the-seven-gables
Men are not angels,” Akhmar affirmed. “And so men have the chance to be noble, in a way that angels cannot.
J. Leigh BralickTags: bravery human-nature angels nobility
Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me.
Jack LondonAll boys wish to be manly; but they often try to become so by copying the vices of men rather than their virtues. They see men drinking, smoking, swearing; so these poor little fellows sedulously imitate such bad habits, thinking they are making themselves more like men. They mistake rudeness for strength, disrespect to parents for independence. They read wretched stories about boy brigands and boy detectives, and fancy themselves heroes when they break the laws, and become troublesome and mischievous. Out of such false influences the criminal classes are recruited. Many a little boy who only wishes to be manly, becomes corrupted and debased by the bad examples around him and the bad literature which he reads. The cure for this is to give him good books, show him truly noble examples from life and history, and make him understand how infinitely above this mock-manliness is the true courage which ennobles human nature.
James Freeman ClarkeTags: boys crime nobility manhood
But, don’t you see, since we happened to have M. de Cambremer here, and he is a Marquis, while you are only a Baron. . . . ” “Pardon me,” M. de Charlus replied with an arrogant air to the astonished Verdurin, “I am also Duc de Brabant, Damoiseau de Montargis, Prince d’Oloron, de Carency, de Viareggio and des Dunes. However, it is not of the slightest importance. Please do not distress yourself,” he concluded, resuming his subtle smile which spread itself over these final words: “I could see at a glance that you were not accustomed to society.
Marcel ProustYes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?
Agatha ChristieTags: danger honor nobility miss-marple
we regard the earldom as an important family honor. But my father is a good man precisely because he is a good man, not because he possesses an ancient title. And as for Lord Blackwood, I find his title all the more appealing because it represents the nobility of the man standing before you, not of some long-dead ancestor.
Julia QuinnTags: nobility
There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.
Ziad K. AbdelnourIf there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy
BoethiusTags: evil goodness nobility degeneration
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