I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.
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.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
I am fighting royalty. I have gypsy kings on both sides of the family.
There is no distinction of persons among them, and deference is shown to merit rather than to noble blood.
The Knights Templar
We were descended from royalty.
I was born to an illustrious family in Hyderabad.
Noble fathers have noble children.
That might sound shocking to some - and don't worry, I don't see myself as a king.
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?
