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Nobility: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind, And therefore cast into these noble moulds.— DRYDEN — Don Sebastian. Act I. Sc. 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.— FROUDE — Short Studies on Great

Subjects. Calvinism. 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. L. 29.

Gifford's trans. Be noble in every thought And in every deed!— LONGFELLOW — Christus. The Golden Legend. Pt. II.

Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.— LONGFELLOW — Tales of a Wayside Inn. Pt. III. The Student's Tale. Emma and Eginhard. L. 82.

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.— LOWELL — Sonnet IV.

Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores. The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.— CLAUDIANUS — De Quarto Consulatu

Honorii Augustii Panegyris. 305 Par nobile fratrum. A noble pair of brothers.— HORACE — Satiræ. II. 3. 243.

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.— GOETHE — Torquato Tasso. I. 1. 59.

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.— GOLDONI — Pamela. I. 6.