Age Quote by Bill Vaughan

“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

The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Antiquity is the aristocracy of history

— Alexandre Dumas Père

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

Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the…

— James F. Cooper

Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy atmosphere. You…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to…

— Aristotle

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

— Michelle Dockery

What I used to respect was not really aristocracy, but a set of personal qualities which aristocracy then developed better than any other system…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.

— Thomas Paine