In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
Virtue is the truest nobility.
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
The army is the true nobility of our country.
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.