Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations. — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it… — Thomas Koerfer 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
But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance.… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is… — Christopher Bailey Copy Share Image
'A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, centered on a legendary pre-Victorian casino… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
[ Massachusetts constitution] was [John Adams] attempt to justify that structure by the traditional notion of social estates - that the executive… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie… — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind,… — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
All the people at university were very aristocratic - except me, because I was on scholarship. And everyone there voluntarily wore suits… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
I was not interested in luxuries because I had an elegant life as a child. My family, very aristocratic, one of the… — Virginia Vallejo Copy Share Image
Occasionally, when I lived in London, I would have sex with a girl from an aristocratic family. I always enjoyed doing to… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority… — Adolf Hitler 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
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
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