Aristocracy Quotes

225 Aristocracy quotes by 102 unique authors

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and… — Henry David Thoreau
Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the… — P.G. Wodehouse
The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to… — P.J. O'Rourke
Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy — Kenneth Rexroth
Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a… — P.G. Wodehouse
‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts… — John Stuart Mill
In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie… — Karl Marx
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. — Emily Dickinson
Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! — Tennessee Williams
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions. — Mark Twain
The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want… — Christa B. Allen
I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam… — James D. Watson
With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from… — John Boyle O'Reilly
It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a… — John Boyle O'Reilly
The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not… — Martin Jacques
We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of… — Marianne Williamson
We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy. — Joel Kinnaman
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There… — John Adams
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy. — Xenophon
An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy… — Mary Elizabeth Lease
The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. — Algernon Sidney
The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you… — James Larkin
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money. — George Bernard Shaw

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