33 quotes found
“Genealogy was her favorite insanity.”
“There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.”
“A degenerate nobleman or one that is proud of his birth is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.”
“My father was a Creole his father a Negro and his father a monkey my family it seems begins where yours left off.”
“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and no slave who has not had a king among his.”
“Noble ancestry makes a poor dish at table.”
“People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.”
“Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.”
“After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...”
“Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology o...”
