Vernon Howard Quotes

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

To me there is no difference whether president, beggar, or king.

The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.

For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

If you play a king, it's better if everybody treats you like a king.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

Kings need the company of the intelligent far more than the intelligent need the company of kings.

You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness.

Privilege is provisional. It can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly, and summarily withdrawn.

The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.

The king can drink the best of wine -So can I;And has enough when he would dine -So have I;And can not order rain or shine -Nor can I.Then where's the difference - let me see -Betwixt my lord the king and me?

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.

The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.