Noble Lineage Quotes

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss. Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome one. Sansa got to sit with him at the feast. Arya had to sit with the little fat one. Naturally.

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

I am a count, not a saint.

Once you've left the concept of family, you've left the concept of kingdom

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].

Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess --native and to the manor born-- and then to forget who you are and settle for being something horrible like an--an accountant!

Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouth perpetually full of it. They swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word.

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

Almost alone among barbarians they are content with one wife, except a very few among them, and these not from sensuality, but because their noble birth procures for them many offers of alliance. The wife does not bring a dower to the husband, but the husband to the wife

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales.

Prince William definitely isn't my type, he's too horsey-looking.

My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.