Best Aristocratic Quotes
51 Aristocratic quotes by 48 unique authors
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The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education…
— Bertrand Russell
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Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only the…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against…
— Adolf Hitler
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Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will…
— Sean Bean
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In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ...…
— Charlie Chaplin
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It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with…
— Christopher Bailey
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I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said, and still believe…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the…
— Damien Hirst
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
— Victor Hugo
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An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
— Johan Huizinga
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Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do…
— Samuel Lover
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Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
— Maximilien Robespierre
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy…
— Frank Herbert
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These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and…
— Charles Baudelaire
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You aristocratic ladies and your gold-plated twats. You always think it's such a honor for me to touch you." He surveyed her with mocking green…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage…
— Thomas Mann
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History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.
— Henry Adams
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The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on…
— George Packer
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In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
— Brad Holland
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The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the…
— Gregory Corso
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