Top 32 Quotes About Noblesse
#1. Service, which is nothing other than a modern echo of noblesse oblige, and generally undertaken in the same spirit of benign condescension.
William Deresiewicz
#2. This is the white man's burden, the noblesse oblige of the missionary, colonist and development professional, who feel a duty to shepherd those unfortunate enough to be trapped in unenlightenment.
Alex Perry
#3. Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.
Edmund Spenser
#4. They were inculcated with a firm sense of noblesse oblige, as with a respect for hierarchy; the Slonim girls knew well how to decode a social situation, and what they could rightfully expect from one. In part these seemed to be survival tactics for living in an uncertain time.
Stacy Schiff
#5. Mmm, being irresistibly likeable is such a trial,' she drawled in an impeccable aristocratic whine. 'One is constantly in demand, but one must do one's duty, mustn't one, dear chap? Noblesse oblige and all that ...
Susan Napier
#6. For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.
Robert W. Welch Jr.
#7. Bu-shi-do means literally Military-Knight-Ways - the ways which fighting nobles should observe in their daily life as well as in their vocation; in a word, the "Precepts of Knighthood," the noblesse oblige of the warrior class.
Inazo Nitobe
#8. The Global Financial Crisis (2008-?); it is not a matter of noblesse oblige as of vitesse oblige.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#9. Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#10. If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
G. M. Trevelyan
#11. According to an old French motto, Noblesse oblige - one must live up to one's name. The Rothschilds' condition of life has imposed on them a second motto: Richesse oblige - one must live up to one's fortune.
Guy De Rothschild
#12. Nothing good will come out with lying.
Son Jae Ho
#13. I will not resign because my resignation will not resolve anything.
Thaksin Shinawatra
#14. To have this opportunity, in light of my familys struggles, made me want to create something lasting and relevant.
Alek Wek
#16. As they say, with great power comes great responsibility."
"Are you screwin' with me, man?" Taylor asked bluntly.
David Estes
#17. I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#18. The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.
Robert Fulghum
#19. Once you've been around for a bit you get to know stuff.
Neil Gaiman
#20. I could be less impatient with people. I sometimes judge by impressions.
Michelle Paver
#21. So, congratulations humans, your global contribution is now on par with a gigantic meteor slamming into the Earth.
Christopher Martenson
#22. The Professor gripped his axe, having pulled it, with some difficulty, from the boy's head.
Neil Davies
#23. I don't know if people realize how much I tour and how much time I spend writing, but I really enjoy it.
Avril Lavigne
#24. If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.
Ron Suskind
#25. Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment
Christopher Hayes
#26. I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.
Luisa Valenzuela
#27. We are each what never leaves us, what we never see
the back of
is the self. But what loves us
is at the back, as Eurydice was
escorting him out
without his knowing.
Christina Davis
#28. We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln
#30. I always value people's opinions. I think a lot of people are really smart people, and when people say something, they do it for a reason.
Harald Zwart
#32. If you're in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
Warren Buffett
