Theodore Parker Quotes

Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

Because you are a great noble, you think you are a great genius! Nobility, a fortune, a rank, appointment to office: all this makes a man so proud! What did you do to earn all this? You took the trouble to get born—nothing more.

Kings! Why, what's a king? .... Is their blood purer than our own? We are all the seed of Abraham!

anybody can be a princess. all you have todo is have the right parents. it's no harder than being born Paris Hilton, for God's sake. at least you remember to put on underwear in the morning, i'm assuming

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?

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

A cat may look at a king.

A cat may looke on a King.

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

[Describing John F. Kennedy:] The enviably attractive nephew who sings an Irish ballad for the company and then disappears before the table-clearing and dishwashing begin.

Titles were symbols, just as impressive buildings were symbols, except that titles, unlike buildings, cost nothing.

You make them all [his friends and companions] equal to kings, you give them power and opportunity of making many friends of their own, and in the meantime you leave yourself destitute

just because a king is a king that does not mean he is not as human as you

Somewhere among every man's ancestors is a prince or a lord, a priest or a saint, and don't forget it. Wake up! Inherit the wealth of your ancestors!.. Stop living like a mouse, live like the rich people do.

I think something about high school students being snobby about how much they have or don't have is particularly absurd because it's not theirs. It's their parents'. So to feel quite good about yourself because you've got the fancy house and car doesn't make any sense - you didn't earn any of that.

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

Salome's of royal blood. She knows whatever she asks she's going to get.

Flip-flops are a privilege, not a right.

There was a commonality in a lot of the private school experiences that I had of children whose lives were not their own. They thought they were their own, but they were essentially gifted this life by their parents. So they were spending money; they were going on trips - I guess, in a way, it is their life, but they didn't earn it.

I treat everyone with the same respect they treat me with. Just because I earn more money doesn't make me more special than them or give me the right to talk to them in a certain manner.

The people who are the most powerful and have the most money sometimes don't value other people.

I honestly don't need much money. People love to buy me drinks. Hostesses love to feed me. Famous artists lavish me with expensive artworks, and heiresses do the same with jewels that I promptly lose.

I feel like everyone needs to respect Paris Hilton.

Technically, I suppose I was following all the right behavior patterns of a trustafarian.