TITLES

Related Subjects: Name, Nobility, Rank

1. An earl by right, by courtesy a man.—ALFRED AUSTIN, The Season
   

2. A successive title, long and dark,
   Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.—DRYDEN, Absalom & Achitophel
   

3. Such is their (the monarchs of Europe) passion for a long list of these splendid trifles, that I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.—GOLDSMITH, Citizen of the World
   

4. Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings,
   That thou mayst be by kings, or whores of kings.—POPE, Essay on Man
   

5. Knighthoods and honours, borne
   As I wear mine, are titles but of scorn.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
   

6. What think you of a duchess? have you limbs
   To bear that load of title?—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
   

7. Now does he feel his title
   Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
   Upon a dwarfish thief.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
   

8. Nor never title yet so mean could prove,
   But there was eke a mind which did that title love.—W. SHENSTONE, The Schoolmistress
   

9. I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better or heavier.—WILLIAM WYCHERLEY, The Plain-Dealer