Aristocracy Quote by Anonymous

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but…

— Nancy Mitford

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

— D. H. Lawrence

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Michelle Dockery

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

— Ezra Stiles

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Aristocracy is always cruel.

— Wendell Phillips

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

— Whittaker Chambers

“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

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

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