When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common! — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Aristocrats have heirs; the poor have children; the rest keep dogs. — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
“The aristocrats had to force them to do their jobs. After all, human beings are not badgers. We aren't molded to stoop.” — Andrew Rimas Evan D.G. Fraser Copy Share Image
Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country. — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
That's how the Germans are… The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
“As a young man he seemed to pine for a bygone world of aristocrats. [In his twenties, he] took to wearing Edwardian… — Benjamin Wallace Copy Share Image
“Real democrats always insist that England is an aristocratic country. Real aristocrats always insist (for some mysterious reason) that it is a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In days gone by, short-statured people were not only labelled as ugly, stupid and freakish, they were often owned by aristocrats and… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
“He turned from the daughters of minor aristocrats to those of farriers, farmers and foresters. Personally he couldn't tell the difference, yet… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on -… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIII-Admit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Some are whigs, liberals, democrats, call them what you please. Others are tories, serviles, aristocrats, &c. The latter fear the people, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Pardon me for budging into concoction of the aristocrats blowing their trumpets, the demagogues' doctrines, the antagonists' squeals, the hypocrites' assertions, the… — Mukesh Kwatra Copy Share Image
The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
“The emancipation of women was destined to follow that of the slaves and the glorification of people without a caste and without… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“No, pardon me, I consider myself and people like me aristocrats: people who can point back to three or four honourable generations… — Lev Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]” — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Aristocrats have heirs, the poor have children, and the rest keep dogs. — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it's so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself. — Keeley Hawes Copy Share Image
“The hands of the latest aristocrats seem better fit to hold tennis rackets or shakers for cocktail mixes than swords or scepter.” — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“Because I’m a peer. We aristocrats always try to get someone else to do something before we have to do it ourselves.”… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“But…” Both men looked over inquiringly when Maximus spoke. “But I never asked you to help me with Noakes.” Makepeace nodded, his… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“The only class I'm interested in, is the class of character, determined not by blood or money, but by intent and behavior.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The aristocrats, if such they could be called, generally hated the whole concept of the train on the basis that it would… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its… — Peter Viereck Copy Share Image
“At this point, a social flaw that always existed with regard to the [Roman] aristocrats in their townhouses became more evident. No… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
The English, of all ranks and classes, are at bottom, in all their feelings, aristocrats. They have some concept of liberty, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image