Noble Conduct Quotes

I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.

Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

I think it less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct (al-murû'ah).

The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest ideals: for the truths which science ignores and must ignore are precisely those which have the deepest bearing on life and conduct.

The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.