Nobility Titles Quotes

I have been Lady C since 1974 when I married my husband, Lord Colin Campbell. We may be divorced, but I kept the title - not because it is specifically important to me but simply because it is my name.

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution.

Privileges tied to nobility, titles and rank may not be enacted.

Aristocracy is naturally abhorrent to me, and adored equality is my idol.

The Spanish culture taught is that having titles of nobility was the way to get rich. But the Aztecs and the indigenous cultures taught us the same thing.

Royal titles ceased to be recognised by the Indian government in 1971. The title of Nawab and Maharaja are not recognised by the Indian government anymore.

No person shall be admitted as a citizen who holds any heredity title.

When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.

Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.