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Quotes about Titles


O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood
The earth when it is sick, and curest the world
O' the pleurisy of people!

Beaumont and Fletcher

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;
The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

Edward Young

Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd
From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go, mark him well!
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim,--
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung.

Sir Walter Scott

Joyce might as well, in his last great dense book, have left us twenty pages of possible titles (perhaps he did; I must look again).

If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.

George F. Will

Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is himself an honour of his titles.

John Ford

Hostess, clap to the doors. Watch to-night, pray to-morrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be merry? Shall we have a play extempore.

William Shakespeare

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

Edward Young

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.

Margot Asquith

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

William Penn

O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,-- Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

George Bernard Shaw

O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people.

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

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