« All Aristocracy Quotes · Ralph Adams Cram's Page
Aristocracy Quotes by Ralph Adams Cram
- The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity…
- In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of…
More Aristocracy Quotes
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire
- There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. — Josh Billings
- Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler
- But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when… — Benjamin Carson
- Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . .… — James Bryant Conant