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“This isn't an army marching on the Mists. This isn't a case you have to solve. It's just a bunch of nobles coming to puff their chests out at each other an try to look important. Do what I do. Bring popcorn.”

War Army Fairies No War Popcorn Nobles Nobles Posing

Book:Once Broken Faith

Source: Once Broken Faith

“I wondered how much time they'd spent practicing entrances like this one, smoothing away their rough edges and rendering them brief but potent expressions of effortless grace. I decided to stop thinking about it, and just be grateful that there was no circumstance, however, unlikely, that could put me in their place.”

Grace Entrance Nobles Entrance Door Not Me Effortless Grace

Book:Once Broken Faith

Source: Once Broken Faith

“If the human race has ever invented an institution more effective in the propagation of intellectual and ethical cripples than the nobility, I have yet to stumble across it.”

Nobility Nobles

Book:Low Town

Source: Low Town

“The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness, and the two characters are both of noble birth.”

Honor Endings Elevation Nobles

Book:Wallet of Kai Lung

Source: Wallet of Kai Lung

“Pah…commoners, traders." Ergus made a disparaging gesture. Traders with money, Ergus. Money they put at the disposition of young Tanahkos," Lmachdan said in a dry tone. "Money that turns into soldiers. Soldiers who are used to extort tribute from us. Tribute that is turned into more soldiers. The warlord has a good thing going, I'll say that for him.”

Power Greed Complaints Taxation Treason Paying Taxes Nobles Rich Men Soldiers Pay

Book:The Invisible Hands - Part 2: Castling

Source: The Invisible Hands - Part 2: Castling

“—No, hijo. Espera. Buscaremos otro... —Ellos mandan, padre. Los nobles mandan. Mandan en el campo, mandan en vuestras tierras y mandan en la ciudad (p. 166)”

Poder Nobles Dominio Patricios Señores Vasallos

Book:La catedral del mar

Source: La catedral del mar

“Nobles are the saints who shoot the ego and the sin and still return to the planting.”

Saints Planting Nobles

Author:Alan Maiccon

“I danas među nama ima ljudi izvišenog morala, koji se od jada i čemera ne vide. Ovi nouveaux rich (novi bogataši) su zapanjujuća vulgarna, ruralna karikatura svega što je aristorkatsko, otmeno, gospodstveno, što nosi u sebi sjaj duhovnog i težnju za božanskim, ali oni o tome ništa ne znaju. U tuđem perju, ponašaju se kao ćurke među rajskim pticama.”

Citati Citat Knjiga Nobles Aristokratsko Stopalo Olivera Katarina Olivera Vuco Aristokratija

Book:Aristokratsko stopalo

Source: Aristokratsko stopalo

“Real nobles are the ones we see when power does not swell a kind and pious heart. There is no greater honor for the motherland than this.”

Real Honor Nobles

Author:Alan Maiccon

“Wealthy is he who is rich in his nobles. Speak truth in your house.”

Truth Speak Rich Wealthy Nobles

Book:Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms