Quotes by Reade, W. Winwood

We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon t >>

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that >>

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have s >>

Quotations about Ancestry

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record d >>

There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their father >>

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a lit >>

There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

Reade, W. Winwood