Nobility

Nobles do not exist merely because there is a peerage system. Even if there were no peerage system, there will be people who are naturally dominant and who will quickly rise to nobility. So much for our nobility then. Why, we are mere peasants.

It's not because you have a title, that you're a noble. There are people who have a natural nobility and are fine nobles. People like us who only have nobility titles are not nobles, we're more like peasants.

The service nobility was a pillar of the Prussian state.

The noble man leaves out of his sense of nobility, while the ignoble man says "He was afraid of me."

Mary was a smart woman, but proud of her nobility. That's why she always wore fine clothes and costly jewels, that would have suited even a queen.

Nobility is no guarantee of wisdom.

He is a knight of nobility without fear and blame.

The nobility and gentry of Scotland, at this period, were remarkable even to extravagance for the number of their servants, whose services were easily purchased in a country where men were numerous beyond proportion to the means of employing them.

Passages from the Gospels were frequently used to whip up the villagers into an antisemitic frenzy, thus keeping them from ever rising up against the nobility.

Nobility has little role in the United States.