Nobility quotes

“I've seen knights in armor panic at the first hint of battle. And I've seen the lowliest, unarmed squire pull a spear from his own body, to defend a dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright. It's defined by one's actions.”
Kevin Costner - Robin Hood

“I want to marry you. Not your crown, not your army. Just you.”
Julia Ormond - Guinevere

“Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“Monarchy is God’s sacred mission to grace and dignify the earth. To give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards, an example of nobility and duty to raise them in their wretched lives. Monarchy is a calling from God.”
Dame Eileen Atkins - Queen Mary

“The nobles, as you call them, are not easy to understand. They live in a world of their own, not created by God but by themselves, through centuries of experience, troubles and joys. They're upset or pleased about things that matter little to you and me - but are vital to them. I don't mean they're bad people. Far from it. They're... different....” (continue)(continue reading)
Romolo Valli - Father Pirrone

“Royalty. Nobility. Gentry. How quaint. Even the rabble.”
Angelina Jolie - Maleficent

“There's no nobility in poverty. I've been a poor man, and I've been a rich man. And I chooserich every fucking time.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Jordan Belfort

“When you squeeze the nobility, it's the peasants who feel the pinch.”

Sir Sean Connery - Draco

“A nobleman is nothing but a man, who says one thing and thinks another.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Don Diego de la Vega

“- Lord Alfred Douglas: You like to write about dukes and duchesses, but you know nothing about them. You're the biggest snob I've ever met, and you think you're so daring because you fuck the occasional boy.
- Oscar Wilde: Bosie, please... You're killing me...
- Lord Alfred Douglas: You just about do when you're at your best. You're amusing,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jude Law - Lord Alfred Douglas
Stephen Fry - Oscar Wilde

“- Francis: Jane, I love you - when will you marry me?
- Jane Olsen: We who are of noble blood may not follow the wishes of our hearts.”
Friedrich Feher - Francis
Lil Dagover - Jane Olsen

“It is the duty, the honor of the patrician class to lead its countrymen by the sword.”
Mark Moses - Lt. Woodbury Kane

“People in the cities cannot believe in nobility because they see no sign of it.”
Michael Greyeyes - Hank Elkrunner

“- Queen: Everyone has their place, Bala. You, the soldiers, the workers... Oh, it's not all that bad being princess, is it? Would you prefer to be carting around dirt all day?
- Princess Bala: Oh, Mother, don't be so dramatic.”
Anne Bancroft - Queen
Sharon Stone - Princess Bala

“Is she really Princess not-so-bright or is she pretending?”
Nora Dunn - Ellita Sanchez

“Does making a man a knight make him a better fighter?”
Jon Finch - Jerusalem

“Because you're common, Cinderella. Your mother was common and so are you. Only you can wash your face and put on a cleandress, but underneath, you'll still be common. But a prince would even consider taking you for his bride? Why, it's laughable!”
Bernadette Peters - Cinderella's Stepmother

“You know your mother fell in love with a robber and a thief. A prince is just as bad if not worse.”

Stuart Wilson - Robin of Locksley

“There's a lot of nobility in this room. Must be the paneling.”
Michael Douglas - Superior Court Judge Steven R. Hardin

“- Dr. Josef Mengele: You are going to be the world's greatest photographer, are you not? Have you ever felt superior to those around you? Like a prince among peasants?
- Bobby Wheelock: I feel different from everyone sometimes.
- Dr. Josef Mengele: You are infinite different. Infinite superior. You are born of the noblest blood in the world.”
Gregory Peck - Dr. Josef Mengele
Jeremy Black - Bobby Wheelock

“- Osgood Fielding III: I am Osgood Fielding the Third.
- Daphne: I'm Cinderella the second.”
Joseph Evans Brown - Osgood Fielding III
Jack Lemmon - Daphne

“- Dr. Josef Mengele: You are born of the noblest blood in the world. You have it within you to fulfill ambitions one thousand times greater than those at which you presently dream, and you shall fulfill them, Bobby. You shall. You are the living duplicate of the greatest man in history: Adolf Hitler.
- Bobby Wheelock: Oh man, you're weird.”
Gregory Peck - Dr. Josef Mengele
Jeremy Black - Bobby Wheelock

“There's nothing noble about crushing desperate men.”
Dennis Quaid - Bowen

“- Bill: Ted?
- Ted: I'm in love, dude.
- Bill: Whoa. Those must be the princesses you told yourself about at the Circle-K. We gotta go. It's a history report, not a babe report.
- Ted: But, Bill, those are historical babes.”

Alex Winter - Bill S. Preston
Keanu Reeves - Ted 'Theodore' Logan

“There's no nobility in poverty.”
Charlie Sheen - Bud Fox