Nobles Quotes

“If the human race has ever invented an institution more effective in the propagation of intellectual and ethical cripples than the nobility, I have yet to stumble across it.”
― Daniel Polansky, Low Town

“Pah…commoners, traders." Ergus made a disparaging gesture.

Traders with money, Ergus. Money they put at the disposition of young Tanahkos," Lmachdan said in a dry tone. "Money that turns into soldiers. Soldiers who are used to extort tribute from us. Tribute that is turned into more soldiers. The warlord has a good thing going, I'll say that for him.”
― Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Hands - Part 2: Castling

“The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness, and the two characters are both of noble birth.”
― Ernest Bramah, Wallet of Kai Lung

“This isn't an army marching on the Mists. This isn't a case you have to solve. It's just a bunch of nobles coming to puff their chests out at each other an try to look important. Do what I do. Bring popcorn.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“—No, hijo. Espera. Buscaremos otro...
—Ellos mandan, padre. Los nobles mandan. Mandan en el campo, mandan en vuestras tierras y mandan en la ciudad (p. 166)”
― Ildefonso Falcones, La catedral del mar

“Nobles are the saints who shoot the ego and the sin and still return to the planting.”
― Alan Maiccon

“I danas među nama ima ljudi izvišenog morala, koji se od jada i čemera ne vide. Ovi nouveaux rich (novi bogataši) su zapanjujuća vulgarna, ruralna karikatura svega što je aristorkatsko, otmeno, gospodstveno, što nosi u sebi sjaj duhovnog i težnju za božanskim, ali oni o tome ništa ne znaju. U tuđem perju, ponašaju se kao ćurke među rajskim pticama.”
― Olivera Katarina, Aristokratsko stopalo

“I wondered how much time they'd spent practicing entrances like this one, smoothing away their rough edges and rendering them brief but potent expressions of effortless grace. I decided to stop thinking about it, and just be grateful that there was no circumstance, however, unlikely, that could put me in their place.”
― Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“Real nobles are the ones we see when power does not swell a kind and pious heart. There is no greater honor for the motherland than this.”
― Alan Maiccon

“Wealthy is he who is rich in his nobles.
Speak truth in your house.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms