Skip to content

Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a man.

— Thomas Southerne

Another quote →

Source, in full

Sir Anthony Love, Act ii, scene 1; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better", William Wycherley, The Plaindealer, Act i. scene 1.

Topics

Men

More quotes by Thomas Southerne

Pity's akin to love; and every thought
Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.

Oroonoko: A Tragedy (1695)

Ambition is an idol on whose wings
Great minds are carry'd only to extreme;
To be sublimely great, or to be nothing.

And when we're worn,
Hack’d, hewn with constant service, thrown aside
To rust in peace, or rot in hospitals.

The Loyal Brother (1682)

'Tis something to be willing to commend;
But my best praise is, that I am your friend.

All Thomas Southerne quotes →

You may also like

Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty.

Ethan Allen

Men may rule the world, but women rule the men who rule the world.

Chinweizu Ibekwe Anatomy of Female Power (1990)

This is the porcelain clay of humankind.

John Dryden Don Sebastian (1690)

Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do.

Ann Coulter The Cornell Review (1984)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Southerne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.