Pierre Charron Quotes

When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

The gentleman will please remember that when his half-civilized ancestors were hunting wild boar in Silesia, mine were princes of the earth.

What is the use of your pedigrees?

I kind of want to take the writer down a peg. I think there are a lot of pretentious writers in this business, which I am certainly one, in certain cases.

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .

We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.

Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?

I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

Kate Middleton has no blue blood coursing through her veins. Her father, Michael, is self-made, and he and his wife have been very successful with their party business, but they are and always will be strictly middle class.

We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.

I don't mean to brag, but my water filter curates tap water, offering moi the finest combination of H, 2, and O available.

I was a big-headed little guy.

I just find anyone who's arrogant and pompous is always the funniest for me.

I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy.

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.