Aristocracy Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing -…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Michelle Dockery

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

— D. H. Lawrence

The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with…

— Thomas Paine

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

— Tennessee Williams

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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: government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Aristocracy is always cruel.

— Wendell Phillips