Noble Heritage Quotes

I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.

The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.

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.

People call my family a dynasty, but I'm not sure what a dynasty actually is. And I don't feel part of one. It belies the truth of my real upbringing, which wasn't grand at all, and it flies in the face of the fact that, at root, I'm just a jobbing actor.

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

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

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

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

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.

The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

Oh no, I am descended from the important Carters.

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

The gentleman will please remember that when his half-civilized ancestors were hunting wild boar in Silesia, mine were princes of the earth.

You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity.

Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source, than at its termination.

Noble fathers have noble children.

I was born to an illustrious family in Hyderabad.

If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest mandates of nature, justly held to be the common and noblest heritage of the human race, will not be spared. Thus, truth being gradually obscured by darkness, pernicious and manifold error, as too often happens, will easily prevail.

I don't think I have enough German blood in me to get into the royal family.