Quotes by Commoners Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing. Jean de La Fontaine commoners fool names A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. Samuel Butler commoners virtue gold I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting. Sheridan Smith commoners acting trying 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. Virginia Woolf commoners arrogant assuming