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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Nobility |
| If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. From the Latin of Böethius. | 1 |
| Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores. The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. Claudianus—De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augustii Panegyris. 305. | 2 |
| 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. | 3 |
| O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature! Euripides—Ion. 238. | 4 |
| There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease. Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. Calvinism. | 5 |
| 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. | 6 |
| 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. | 7 |
| Par nobile fratrum. A noble pair of brothers. Horace—Satires. II. 3. 243. | 8 |
| 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. “Virtus sola nobilitat,” is the Latin of last line. | 9 |
| Noblesse oblige. There are obligations to nobility. Comte de Laborde, in a notice to the French Historical Society in 1865, attributes the phrase to Duc de Levis, who used it in 1808, apropos of the establishment of the nobility. | 10 |
| Be noble in every thought And in every deed! Longfellow—Christus. The Golden Legend. Pt. II. | 11 |
| 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. | 12 |
| 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. | 13 |
| Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility. Lord John Manners—England’s Trust. Pt. III. L. 227. | 14 |
| Be aristocracy the only joy: Let commerce perish—let the world expire. Modern Gulliver’s Travels. P. 192. (Ed. 1796). | 15 |
| His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for’s power to thunder. Coriolanus. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 255. | 16 |
| This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Cæsar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. Julius Cæsar. Act V. Sc. 5. L. 68. | 17 |
| Better not to be at all Than not be noble. Tennyson—The Princess. Pt. II. L. 79. | 18 |
| Whoe’er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty, and virtue Displays distinguished merit, is a noble Of Nature’s own creating. Thomson—Coriolanus. Act III. Sc. 3. | 19 |
| Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies. Young—Love of Fame. Satire I. L. 145. | 20 |
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