#nobles

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#ascendancy #came #completely #complexion #end

Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.) ↗

— Tom Angleberger

#noblesse-oblige #humor

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. ↗

— William Bennett

#democracy #export #human #human rights #noblest

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords. ↗

— Edmond Halley

#astronomy #far #noblest #sight

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind. ↗

— John Dryden

#love #mind #noblest

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ↗

— Confucius

#bitterest #easiest #experience #first #imitation

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#construct #destruction #efforts #human #noblest

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#does #ennobles #happiness #makes #men

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. ↗

— Albert Pike

#almost #artisans #artists #been #genius

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#asked #babies #bad #father #god