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Alexander Pope
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero
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.
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Daniel Defoe
Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.
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Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Edmund Burke
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.
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Edmund Burke
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference not exclusive appropriation given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.
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George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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Helen Keller
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
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Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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.
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Iphicrates
My nobility, said he, begins in me, but yours ends in you. - Iphicrates
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Marquis Philippe Emanuel de Coulanges
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.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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.
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Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso
Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. Lat., Nam genus et proavos et quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voco.
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Piers Anthony
We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
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Richard Brome
I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror.
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Samuel Butler
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.
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