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Commoners Quotes

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Jean de La Fontaine
Names, Fool, Commoners
"The Wordsworth Book of Humorous Quotations". Book by C. Robertson, 1998.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Samuel Butler
Gold, Virtue, Commoners
Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.75, Samuel Butler

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

Sheridan Smith
Trying, Acting, Commoners

Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.

Virginia Woolf
Arrogant, Assuming, Commoners
Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.102, Oxford University Press, USA

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