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Tag Name "Commoner" (9)

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Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
Dorothy Parker
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There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful the other, by striving to render one's self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more attractive the second is the rarer and more noble.
Henry Clay Trumbull
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When meeting royalty, it is very important, no matter how excited you are, not to vomit on them. Instead, vomit on the nearest commoner.
Stephen Colbert
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Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.
Virginia Woolf
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There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.
Winston Churchill
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People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.
George Orwell
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
Tony Benn
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
W. H. Auden