Aristocrat Quotes

27 quotes by 27 authors

I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if… — Sade Adu
Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately… — Alexis de Tocqueville
He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being. — D. H. Lawrence
I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited… — Michael York
If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country. — Andrew Johnson
As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat. — James Weldon Johnson
I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat. — Benjamin Rush
The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom — Georg Buchner
Speaking of dust, â€˜out of which we came and to which we shall return,â€™ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work. — Lytton Strachey
Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and… — Michael Foley
My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family,… — Celia Imrie
If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers… — Criss Jami
Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea… — Wallace Shawn
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
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. — John Updike
Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and… — Edith Sitwell
The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid.… — Lisa Kleypas
What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it. — Muriel Barbery

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