Quotes on Commoners

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.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

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.

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

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.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.