“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
“...paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls. — Brad Holland 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
“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
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
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
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
The idea of elegance and aristocratic indulgence of an ocean cruise was born out of the image of the rich men and… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
Our traditional stories are based on an aristocratic model without a middle class, whereas The Arabian Nights reflect people living in cities,… — Marina Warner 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
Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm… — Jean-Paul Marat 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
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
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
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
I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset 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
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
“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
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
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
To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
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