Aristocratic Quotes

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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they… — Margaret Atwood
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. — Charles Baudelaire
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler
I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature… — Helena Bonham Carter
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. — Richard Cobden
Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people.… — Rose Bird
Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being… — Eugene V. Debs
America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach… — Daniel J. Boorstin
It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is the… — Howard Zinn
We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the… — David Brooks
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in… — Theodor Herzl
Slavery is malignantly aristocratic. — Antoinette Brown Blackwell
But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasnâ€™t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be… — Herbert Read
Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your… — Jean-Paul Marat
I really donâ€™t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the worldÂ withÂ others, not as an aristocratic… — Ermanno Olmi
The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture to a gross… — Russell Kirk
Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her… — Lytton Strachey
I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of… — Charles Dance

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