Isolated Quote by Elsa Maxwell

Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

— Ambrose Bierce

“The Marble Tombs that rise on high, Whose Dead in vaulted Arches lye, Whose Pillars swell with sculptur'd Stones, Arms, Angels Epitaphs and Bones,…

— Thomas Parnell - A Night-Piece on death 1721

“At this point, a social flaw that always existed with regard to the [Roman] aristocrats in their townhouses became more evident. No longer finding…

— Norman F. Cantor

The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our…

— Alfred de Musset

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

— George Bernard Shaw

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

— D. H. Lawrence

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“To give you an idea of my state of mind I can not do better than compare it to one of those rooms we…

— Alfred De Musset

The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion for vengeance…

— Robert D. McFadden

The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for…

— Charles M. Schwab

The rich - they just live in another realm, really.

— John Updike

“The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its…

— Alexis de Tocqueville