Famous quotes containing the words illustrious and/or persons:
“It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)