Admission Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

— Benjamin Disraeli

What I used to respect was not really aristocracy, but a set of personal qualities which aristocracy then developed better than any other system…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy atmosphere. You…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

— Aristotle

I'm not from aristocracy, or anything like that.

— Michelle Dockery

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent…

— Tom Robbins

Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.

— Thomas Paine

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.

— Rachael Stirling

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

— D. H. Lawrence

Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the…

— James F. Cooper