Coat Of Arms Quotes

• There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

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  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fashion   Men   Doubt  

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

  576

• Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!

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  Jean Cocteau

  Stars   Axes   Blue  

  3036

• The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals.

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  Antoine Rivarol

  Coats   Arms   Individual  

  4647

• The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat of arms.

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  Harold Innis

  Animal   Coats   Arms  

  Harold Adams Innis (1999). “The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History”, p.3, University of Toronto Press

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• A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.

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  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Women   Flower   Simple  

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

  4654

• With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax relief than national survival. [Responding to an earlier statement by British Science Minister, Lord Hailsham, that British scientists were being recruited by the U.S.]

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  Harold Wilson

  Struggle   Science   Survival  

  1446

• People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.

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  Christian Louboutin

  Tattoo   People   Coats  

  617