The only real nobles are Welshmen and Jews.

You cannot call anything so ridiculously recent as the European upper classes a nobility.

Now I go straight back to the creation of the world, like all my countrymen.

The Hibernians get a factitious reputation for antiquity by saying that Eve married an Irishman after Adam died, and that is about as much claim as your European nobles have to respectability.

Bah! I know their beginnings, very small indeed." "You also seem to have strong prejudices on the subject," said I, not wishing to contradict a guest in my house.
"So strong that it amounts to having no prejudices at all.