Books Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

King is a title which translated into several languages, signifies a magistrate with as many different degrees of power as there are kingdoms in…

— John Arbuthnot

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

— Blaise Pascal

Nobility means strength of character, a word of honor, immovability and mind over matter.

— Anonymous

In most countries, property law means that people can take possession of manuscripts and, in some circumstances, a lone copy of a printed text.…

— Michael Rosen

Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the papers in…

— Thomas De Witt Talmage

Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.

— Samuel Smiles

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

— Thorstein Veblen

What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason.…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.

— William Hazlitt

“frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism…

— Isaac Asimov