Aristocracy Quote by Anatole Broyard

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing -…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea…

— Leszek Kolakowski

Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.

— Thomas Paine

Aristocracy is always cruel.

— Wendell Phillips

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

— Tennessee Williams

I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.

— Rachael Stirling

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

— George Bernard Shaw

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it were admirable,…

— Amor Towles

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

— Ezra Stiles

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm not from aristocracy, or anything like that.

— Michelle Dockery