Quotes on Pedigree

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.