He was proud of his hatred as of everything else. Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualitie… - William Makepeace Thackeray

I can endure poverty but not shame-neglect but not insult,and insult from you..

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. The feasts there were of the grandest in London, but there was not overmuch content therewith, except among the guests who sat at my lord’s table. Had he not been so great a Prince very few possibly would have visited him; but in Vanity Fair the sins of very great personages are looked at indulgently.