I was not interested in luxuries because I had an elegant…

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

— Eva Zeisel

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

— Brad Holland

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of…

— Lytton Strachey

When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and an aristocratic…

— John Dewey

You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray…

— Henry Miller

“He admired her for throwing off her aristocratic shackles -- his terms, that -- and making her own way in the world. He didn't…

— Lauren Willig

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls.…

— Katie McGrath

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

— Henry Adams

“The truth was that, with the Duchess de Luxembourg, with Mme de Morienval, Mme de Saint-Euverte and any number of others, the features that…

— Marcel Proust

One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and…

— Marshall McLuhan

It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary…

— Bertrand Russell

Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing…

— Walter Lippmann

Aristocratic depression has this cosmic dimension to it, where it's asking these big questions about, "Why?" "What is the purpose of all this?" Neuroses…

— Lawrence Douglas

“I have an aristocratic smile and like to punch people.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer