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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
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
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
— Sallust
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
Scions of old families who've hit the skids do like to flaunt their illustrious ancestors....
— Charlotte MacLeod
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
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
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
