I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
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Nobility of conduct is a greater recommendation than nobility of birth.
Nobility of soul is more honourable than nobility of birth.
The nobility
The decadence of the nobility
Plagues the society, unobserved, more than
The immorality of the mass does.
Yet the nobility emerges unsoiled.
01.10.2010.
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Think noble, Talk noble and Get Nobel
Noble are those
Who have self evolved
Humane values
And who stand by what they value
Not necessarily nobility
Of a person is assessed
On what they own or acquired
On whether they have power and authority
Any way present day requirement is that
A person needs to be rich and powerful
For he or she to be declared noble
Nobility enhances with popularity
The more popularity the greater nobility
The cumulative effect of
Power and popularity is
Immensely reflected on
The hurry in which one gets into
Noble cadre
Thus a person with
Self evolved humane values
Popularity, fame and power
Assumes greater nobility
In the society
But note the fame one acquires
Through notoriety
Does not and will add to his
Nobility scale
The person may even create
Controversies without, of course,
Affecting the social harmony
And remain noble
What about acting on your noble ideas
It looks from one of the recent
Nobel awardees
That you need not act
On your ideas
Just keep talking about them
In all possible gatherings
But ensure that the crowd accepts
Whatever great things you have to say
To become a Nobel Laureate
You require to do only these
Think noble
Just talk noble
And get the Nobel
poem by Bashyam Narayanan
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The Debt
Marie Antoinette
Wan countenance set
With gunge
Sits mute at toilette
And dabs with a wet
Sea sponge
Now settle the debt
False charge, dark as jet
Expunge.
Cart avidly met
The creditors fret
And lunge
Then recompense whet
Slant iron is let
To plunge!
Wan countenance set
Marie Antoinette.
poem by Diane Hine
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Marie Antoinette
They told to Marie Antoinette:
"The beggers at your gate
Have eyes too sad for tears to wet,
And for your pity wait."
But Marie only laughed and said:
"My heart they will not ache:
If people starve for want of bread
Let them eat cake."
The Court re-echoed her bon mot;
It rang around the land,
Till masses wakened from their woe
With scyth and pick in hand.
It took a careless, callous phrase
To rouse the folk forlorn:
A million roared the Marseillaise:
Freedom was born.
And so to Marie Antoinette
Let's pay a tribute due;
Humanity owes her a debt,
(Ironical, it's true).
She sparked world revolution red,
And as with glee they bore
Upon a pike her lovely head
--Her curls dripped gore.
poem by Robert William Service
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There is a certain nobility and dignity in combat soldiers and medical aid men with dirt in their ears. They are rough and their language gets coarse because they live a life stripped of convention and niceties. Their nobility and dignity come from the way they live unselfishly and risk their lives to help each other.
quote by Bill Mauldin
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
quote by Viktor Korchnoi
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
quote by Jean Rostand
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From all evil against which the law bars you, you should be barred, at an infinite distance, by honour, by conscience, and nobility. Does the law require patriotism, philanthropy, self-abnegation, public service, purity of purpose, devotion to the needs of others who have been placed in the world below you? The law is a great thing, — because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no tyrant can be above it. But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.
quote by Anthony Trollope
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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
quote by Benito Mussolini
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Tamora: Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge:
Thrice noble Titus, spare my first-born son.
line from Titus Andronicus, Act I, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1593)
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Tamora: Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge:
Thrice noble Titus, spare my first-born son.
line from Titus Andronicus, Act I, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1593)
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Let them eat cake.
quote by Marie Antoinette
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There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
quote by Marie Antoinette
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I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
quote by Marie Antoinette
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Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
quote by Marie Antoinette
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No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.
quote by Marie Antoinette
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I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.
quote by Antonia Fraser
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I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
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