Dominion Quote by John Milton

A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the Tower: Is…

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“For kings indeed we have, who wear the marks and assume the titles of royalty, but as for the qualities of their minds, they…

— Plutarch

Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world…

— William Shakespeare

Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.

— Josh Billings

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

— Blaise Pascal

Beautiful princesses and beautiful, strong queens are brainwashed into thinking ho’s and B****’s are virtuous titles.

— Delano Johnson

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

— Honore de Balzac

There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet…

— Samuel Smiles

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

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

— Anonymous

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to…

— Thomas More