159 Quotes About Titles

The genuine mind of man, thirsting for its native home, society, contemns the gewgaws that separate him from it. Titles are like circles drawn by the magician's wand, to contract the sphere of man's felicity. He lives immured within the Bastille of a word, and surveys at a distance the envied life of man.

Having a title does not make you entitled.

The moment that counts most for me is the one that precedes reading. At times a title is enough to kindle in me the desire for a book that perhaps does not exist.

I thought about TimeBlaze. We should...shorten the titles. The titles are getting long. More colons than a proctologist.

Well, you know the form,’ Bedingfield says. ‘She lives in that room and has her ladies – those ones – cook for her over the fire. You knock and go in, and if you call her Lady Katherine she kicks you out, and if you call her Your Highness she lets you stay. So I call her nothing. You, I call her. As if she were a girl that scrubs the steps.

You don't need a title to be vital.

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980.

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.