Lovers Quote by Andrea Lee

“There had been a time when this was not unusual. A time when the wealthy were exemplars. When you held yourself to a higher…

— Philipp Meyer

“Of course all that these young bourgeois really wanted was to be aristocrats. They bought titles, married into aristocratic families whenever they could. And…

— Anne Rice

“And - as is perhaps the universal custom of aristocratically bred persons - they reacted to the news of their ruin by resolving to…

— Salman Rushdie

“Despite noble depravity, there was something intoxicating about high society.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“There might be cheats or possible cheats amongst them, men who beat their wives, men with perverse instincts, greedy men, cowardly men, lying men;…

— Ian Fleming

“By and large the aristocracy was intelligent enough. The problem was that its members had no need to live by their wits. Thus their…

— Loretta Chase

“Aristocracy has three successive stages: the age of superiority, the age of privilege, and the age of vanity. Once through with the first, it…

— Chateaubriand

“people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Customs are formed, and the descendants of men are trapped therein. The generations pass without a chance to weed out the foolish from the…

— Noriko Ogiwara

“History was drenched in blood. But it also had cooperation and kindness, generosity, intermarriage.”

— James S.A. Corey

“And the unequal accumulation of wealth by the elites continued.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson