In an update of Nancy Mitford's 'noblesse oblige', The Telegraph has this handy guide, entitled, “What type of RP do you speak?”
What if charity—giving out of love or noblesse oblige or religious commitment—doesn't go far enough?
Mitt Romney started off this campaign cycle as a noblesse oblige candidate.
James, perhaps least of all the Stuarts, illustrated the principle of noblesse oblige.
noblesse oblige, my dear, and you have proved it so to-night.
The negative side of noblesse oblige is more important than the positive.
But noblesse oblige, and we must serve those who have not had our good fortune.
I agree with you, too, that our race should not close in me,—noblesse oblige.
This is the true meaning of that finest of all old sayings, “noblesse oblige.”
They missed something of the noblesse oblige which was to them as a matter of course.
The belief that the wealthy and privileged are obliged to help those less fortunate. From French, meaning “nobility obligates.”
