“He was awfully good at being aristocratic. Alexia, on the other hand, was only good at being autocratic. Not quite the same… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
“...paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The aristocratic mind ... is anti-analytical. It is concerned more with the status of being than with the demonstrable relationship of parts. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]...… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world:… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's… — Katie McGrath Copy Share Image
My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very… — SZA Copy Share Image
I mean, in the history of poetry there have been a lot poetries where you have to inherit the position of poet… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Aristocratic depression has this cosmic dimension to it, where it's asking these big questions about, "Why?" "What is the purpose of all… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier,… — Sean Bean Copy Share Image
You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens,… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
In virtually every Continental state at this time, aristocracies had to live with the risk that their property might be pillaged or… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“The truth was that, with the Duchess de Luxembourg, with Mme de Morienval, Mme de Saint-Euverte and any number of others, the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-flowing grace conferred by an aristocratic education, and… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“even if a gentleman should lose his whole substance, he must never give way to annoyance. Money must be so subservient to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“He has a very nice face and style, really," said Mrs. Kenwigs. "He certainly has," added Miss Petowker. "There's something in his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
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