Self-styled Titles
Sometimes someone makes up a false title that does not even purport to belong to an existing nation. Those who do this may then grant other false titles or honors, or a membership in a false or self-styled order of chivalry, to other persons in exchange for payment, gifts, or donations. Sometimes in order to support the illusion of legitimacy for a falsely assumed title, one or more web sites (or even an elaborate collection of mutually referencing web sites) are created that feature or list a person who has assumed a false title. Often these web sites can appear to be themselves quite legitimate and convincing (sometimes amazingly so), but really only serve to try to legitimize the person who has assumed a false title.
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Famous quotes containing the words self-styled and/or titles:
“There is every reason to rejoice with those self-styled prophets of commercial disaster, those harbingers of gloom,
Over the imminent lateness of the denouement that, advancing slowly, never arrives,
At the same time keeping the door open to a tongue-in-cheek attitude on the part of the perpetrators....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Lear. Dost thou call me fool, boy?
Fool. All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)