Nobility/history

Famous quotes containing the words nobility and/or history:

    “Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “I am not a literary man.... I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.”
    —J.A.H. (James Augustus Henry)