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Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. — Joseph Addison

If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience. — Anne Lamott

The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrious Families of Lancaster and York, — Alison Weir

I shall tread in the footsteps of my illustrious predecessor. — Martin Van Buren

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me. — Geraldine McEwan

Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious. — Nina Easton

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting. — Sallust

In my illustrious career as a university student,
I turned in over 100 papers so that one day,
in the end, I got 1 paper in return. — J.R. Rim

That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death. — Emily Dickinson

What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. — Thomas Overbury

I've fallen in love with my horse. It's a safer bet. We all know from my illustrious past that I should be sticking to men with four legs. — Sharon Stone

It's a penis," Margo said, "in the same sense that Rhode Island is a state: it may have an illustrious history, but it sure isn't big. — John Green

Scions of old families who've hit the skids do like to flaunt their illustrious ancestors.... — Charlotte MacLeod

The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet. — Mark Twain

My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do. — Artemisia Gentileschi

I do not pursue yesterday's wishes, for you are true. No illusions can illustrate your illustrious truth. My Queen, just look at you. — Delano Johnson

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse. — Edmund Waller

Like his illustrious predecessor, Parsons did not see the two disciplines of science and magic as contradictory. — George Pendle

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about. — James Baldwin

Children, to be illustrious is sad. — Howard Nemerov

is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions. — Edith Wharton

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The course of morality is subtle and even the most illustrious, wise people in this world fail to always understand it. — Kavita Kane

Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive. — Lauren DeStefano

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. — William Cowper

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. — Paul Cezanne

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living. — Fernando Pessoa

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. — Ambrose Bierce

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence. — Confucius

THE ADVENTURE OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS CLIENT — Arthur Conan Doyle

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men ... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. — Martin Van Buren

Bright and illustrious illusions! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. — Sophocles

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind. — Charles James Fox

Somewhere along the way of my illustrious high school career I traded my humanity for a prison of popularity. — Jean Haus