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Daniel Polansky
“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.”
Daniel Polansky, Low Town

Andrew Ashling
“Pah鈥ommoners, 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.”
Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Hands - Part 2: Castling

Ernest Bramah
“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.”
Ernest Bramah, Wallet of Kai Lung

Seanan McGuire
“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.”
Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

Ildefonso Falcones
“鈥擭o, hijo. Espera. Buscaremos otro...
鈥擡llos mandan, padre. Los nobles mandan. Mandan en el campo, mandan en vuestras tierras y mandan en la ciudad (p. 166)”
Ildefonso Falcones, La catedral del mar

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

“I danas me膽u nama ima ljudi izvi拧enog morala, koji se od jada i 膷emera ne vide. Ovi nouveaux rich (novi bogata拧i) su zapanjuju膰a vulgarna, ruralna karikatura svega 拧to je aristorkatsko, otmeno, gospodstveno, 拧to nosi u sebi sjaj duhovnog i te啪nju za bo啪anskim, ali oni o tome ni拧ta ne znaju. U tu膽em perju, pona拧aju se kao 膰urke me膽u rajskim pticama.”
Olivera Katarina, Aristokratsko stopalo

Seanan McGuire
“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.”
Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith

“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.”
Alan Maiccon

“Wealthy is he who is rich in his nobles.
Speak truth in your house.”
Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms