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I look down upon him With such contempt and scorn, as on my slave; He's a name only, and all good in him He must derive from his great grandsire's ashes, For had not their victorious acts bequeathed His titles to him, and wrote on his forehead, "This is a lord," he had lived unobserved By any man of mark and died as one Amongst the common rout. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher We are all souldiers, and all venture lives; And where there is no difference in men's worths, Titles are all jests. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, A King, and No King (act 1, sc. 1) Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century. - Henry Ward Beecher Titles, indeed, may be purchased; but virtue is the only coin that makes the bargain valid. - Robert Burton A fool, indeed, hath great need of a title; it teaches men to call him count and duke, and to forget his proper name of fool. - John Crowne All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own. - Michael Drayton A successive title, long and dark, drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark. - John Dryden Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is himself an honour of his titles. - John Ford, The Lady's Trial (act I, sc. 3, l. 30) A truce to titles; I will none. - Giuseppe Garibaldi Titles and profit I resign, The post of honor shall be mine. - John Gay The three highest titles that can be given a man are those of martyr, hero, saint. - Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone These people, however fallen, are still men, and that is a very good title to my affection. - Oliver Goldsmith Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title. - Oliver Goldsmith These are the lords That have bought titles: men may merchandise Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities From sea to sea, and from shore to shore: But in my thought, of all things that are sold, 'Tis pity honor should be bought for gold: It cuts off all desert. - Eliza Haywood I can make a lord, but only God Almighty can make a gentleman. - James I of England (James VI of Scotland) High titles debase, instead of elevate, those who know not how to support them. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners. - Sir Roger L'Estrange For it is not titles that reflect honor on men, but men on their titles. - Niccolo Machiavelli (Macchiavelli) Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular. - John Milton Virtue is the first title of nobility. - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin) How impious is the title of sacred majesty applied to a worm, who, in the midst of his splendor, is crumbling into dust. - Thomas Paine Titles do not count with posterity. - Thomas Paine Of all trifles, titles are the lightest. - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn Everything made by man may be destroyed by man. There are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and she makes neither princes, nor rich men, not lords. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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