Quotes: Heir

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father’s estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.

I’m the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.