“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
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
“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
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one. — George Santayana 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
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
... the gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of… — Federico Garcia Lorca 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
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“He admired her for throwing off her aristocratic shackles -- his terms, that -- and making her own way in the world.… — Lauren Willig 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
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
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
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
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
The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special… — John Bright 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
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
I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not… — Ermanno Olmi Copy Share Image
Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York,… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring,… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
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