Titles, Styles, Honours and Arms
Read more about this topic: Princess Benedikte Of Denmark Famous quotes containing the words honours and/or arms:“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.” “Ive been opened and undressed. |