Aristocracy Quotes

225 Aristocracy quotes by 102 unique authors

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. — Mark Twain
In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy. — Nigel Cole
The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind. — Thomas Jefferson
As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very… — Christopher Bollen
The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy. — Napoleon Bonaparte
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations;… — Theodore Roosevelt
The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or… — Bill Vaughan
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies… — Bill Vaughan
Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting… — Alexis de Tocqueville
If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. — Epicurus
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by… — Thomas Jefferson
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. — Thomas Jefferson
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. — Michael Korda
London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting. — John Legend
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give,… — Henri Matisse
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world… — George Jean Nathan
Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the… — Camille Paglia
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. — Adam Smith
Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese. — Gene Tierney
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. — John Updike
If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one… — George Edward Woodberry
I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want… — Caitlin Moran
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy… — Frank Herbert

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