Ancestry Quote by James Gates Percival

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to…

— Anonymous

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“The great are deceived if they imagine they have appropriated ambition and vanity to themselves. These notable qualities flourish as notably in a country…

— Henry Fielding

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their ancestors that…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues

— Agesilaus II

“Fools often mistake disrespect for showmanship, thinking that arrogance and bluster will earn them admiration. In truth, they only reveal their lack of class…

— Erick "The Black Sheep" G

What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus…

— Blaise Pascal

“My visit to Her Highness was an agreeable surprise for me. Instead of being ushered into the presence of an over-decorated woman, sporting diamond…

— Manu S. Pillai

“Guard your integrity, attain toward maturity, develop a character of nobility, and live above mediocrity”

— Donald Pillai

“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.”

— Marcel Proust