False Merit Quotes

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.