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“One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground”
Samuel Butler Quotes |
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“He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another”
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“The nobler the blood the less the pride”
Don Marquis Quotes |
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“The wisdom of our ancestors.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: (according to Lord Brougham), also attributed to Edmund Burke "Observations on a Late Publication on
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“I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards
are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror.”
Richard Brome Quotes Source: The English Moor (act II, 4)
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“I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes Source: Dedication to Urn Burial
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“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look
backward to their ancestors.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France (vol. III, p. 274)
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“The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of
the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it,
and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself.
It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts
benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth
and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as
most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this
transmission.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France (vol. III, p. 298)
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“Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not
exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural,
nor unjust, nor impolite.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France (vol. III, p. 299)
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“A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like
a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is
underground.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: "Characters" A Degenerate Noblemen
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“Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: A Sketch (l. 1)
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“It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house!
alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one."
[Lat., Odiosum est enim, cum a praetereuntibus dicatur:--O domus
antiqua, heu, quam dispari dominare domino.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Officiis (CXXXIX)
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“I came up-stairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.”
William Congreve Quotes Source: Love for Love (act II, sc. 1)
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“D'Adam nous sommes tous enfants,
La prove en est connue,
Et que tous, nos premier parents
Ont mene la charrue.
Mais, las de cultiver enfin
La terre labouree
L'une a detele le matin,
L'autre l'apres-dinee.”
Marquis Philippe Emanuel de Coulanges Quotes Source: D'Origine de la Noblesse
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“Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.”
Daniel Defoe Quotes Source: The True-Born Englishman (part I, l. 372)
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“Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret.”
Samuel Foote Quotes Source: The Author (act II, sc. 1, l. 375)
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“Say, when the ground our father Adam till'd,
And mother Eve the humble distaff held,
Who then his pedigree presumed to trace,
Or challenged the prerogative of place?
[Lat., Primus Adam duro cum vertet arva ligone,
Pensaque de vili deceret Eva colo:
Ecquis in hoc poterat vir nobilis orbe videri?
Et modo quisquam alios ante locandue erir?”
Samuel Foote Quotes Source: The Author (act II, sc. 1, l. 375)
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“No, my friends, I go (always other things being equal) for the
man that inherits family traditions and the cumulative humanities
of at least four or five generations.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes Source: Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (ch. I)
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“Few sons attain the praise
Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. II, l. 315), (Pope's translation)
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“The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in
horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage
eagles produce a peaceful dove.
[Lat., Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis;
Est in juvenis, est in equibus patrum
Virtus; nee imbellem feroces
Progenerant aquilae columbam.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Carmina (bk. IV, 4)
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“"My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you."
- Iphicrates,”
Iphicrates Quotes Source: Plutarch's Morals--Apothegms of Kings and Great Commander's--Iphicrates
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“Faith, I know nothing about it; I am my own ancestor.
[Fr., An, ma foi, je n'en sais rien; moi je suis mon ancetre.]”
Andoche Junot (Duc d'Abrantes) Quotes Source: when asked as to his ancestry
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“Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or
the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?
[Lat., Stemmata quid faciunt, quid prodest, Pontice, longo,
Sanguine censeri pictosque ostendere vultus.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (VIII, 1)
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“Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me,
To git me a transplantable an' thrifty fem'ly-tree.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: The Biglow Papers (2nd series, no. 3, III)
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“Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.”
Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) Quotes Source: said to the Emperor of Austria, who hoped to trace Napoleon's lineage
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