Illustrious Class

Famous quotes containing the words illustrious and/or class:

“It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)