I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a…

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

— John Updike

“how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.”

— Frank Herbert

“He bethought him with pride that he had always been called a scholar, and sneered at for his love of solitude and books. He…

— Virginia Woolf

“She was what an aristocrat should be, porcelain and silk, unreachable, gracious, untainted by the dust of all this common death.”

— Tanith Lee

“[...] Just because a person has a title doesn't make him an aristocrat. Some people are great aristocrats who have no other title than…

— Osamu Dazai

“An aristocrat? Apart from my deep hatred for birthright and primogeniture, I was aghast at my grooming misfire.”

— Tim Rogers

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom

— Georg Buchner

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

— Lytton Strachey

I always use the same comparison: Ian McKellen isn't a wizard. I'm not a 19-year-old aristocrat from the 19th century. It's all made up.

— Nicola Coughlan

“What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly. 'Reverence,' he replied.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant…

— Alain de Botton

“You can learn how to be an aristocrat by following a few rules in a very short book. There is nothing to it.” He…

— Heather O'Neill