Aristocrat Quotes
27 quotes by 27 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.
— Andrew Johnson
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As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.
— James Weldon Johnson
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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
— Benjamin Rush
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The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom
— Georg Buchner
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Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
— John Updike
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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
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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
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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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