Aristocrat Quote by Gail Carriger

“This complete ignorance of the realities, this innocent view of mankind, is what, in my opinion, constitutes the truly aristocratic. For”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He always had to act in an obnoxiously idiosyncratic way.”

— Heather O'Neill

“As far as she was concerned, aristocracy had nothing to do with money or social position. Aristocracy was linked to a nobility of mind,…

— Patricia Bosworth

“Mmm, being irresistibly likeable is such a trial,' she drawled in an impeccable aristocratic whine. 'One is constantly in demand, but one must do…

— Susan Napier

“... She is awesomely competent without being smug. She is determined without being bossy, morally certain without being judgmental. She likes herself but is…

— Dean Koontz

“had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily. Moreover, his confusion was significant, whereas her order was not.”

— Nathanael West

“Yet she was no bureaucrat; her practice was as various and elastic as her principles were constant; there was the method and even the…

— Parents' National Education Union

“She had liked him for himself, that was indisputable. And yet, much as she had liked him she had liked the bourgeois standard of…

— Jack London

“She didn’t quite fit into any category: rebel, nobility, common, or royal. Sage just was.”

— Frost Kay

“What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic by its…

— José Ortega y Gasset

“He admired her for throwing off her aristocratic shackles -- his terms, that -- and making her own way in the world. He didn't…

— Lauren Willig