“ It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. ”
- Sir Philip Sidney- Copy
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“ The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. ”
- Whitney Young- Copy
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“ No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, Displays distinguished merit, is a noble Of Nature's own creating. ”
- James Thomson- Copy
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“ Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. ”
- Robert Bolt- Copy
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“ Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey. ”
- Horatio Nelson- Copy
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“ The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. ”
- Whitney Young- Copy
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“ Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.9K
“ When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man. ”
- Lord Northcliffe- Copy
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“ Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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