Samuel Butler
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
"A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy."
Commoners quotes
Commoners
4 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jean de La Fontaine
Poet, Fabulist
"Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing."
Sheridan Smith
Actress
"I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"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."
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