Aristocrats Quote by Heather O'Neill

“The desires our little family couldn't afford to indulge had never seemed important, only snobbish and silly and somehow misplaced, like Thurston Howell's priorities…

— Jonathan Lethem

“Salinger, Plath, Toole, the literature of choice for the brooding outcast.”

— Rob Thomas

“We so often seek what we’re deprived of in childhood. Sheltered children become reckless. Starving children become ambitious.”

— A.G. Riddle

“Youth was the time for happiness, its only season; young people, leading a lazy, carefree life, partially occupied by scarcely absorbing studies, were able…

— Michel Houellebecq

“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

— Plato

“Children left their old parents at home and scattered in all directions in search of money. It was hard on an old woman with…

— Chinua Achebe

“He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The son of a respectable Collector of Customs, he had been educated at Winchester and Oxford, where his industry and piety had given him…

— Anonymous

“The rich world of his ancestors set the standards for Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s own life. It gave him a certainty of judgment and manner that…

— Eric Metaxas

“Childhood is a process of slowly recomposing oneself out of the borrowed materials of the world.”

— Nicole Krauss

“The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. To subdue one’s self to one’s own ends might be…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Fully aware that life is too short for the choice to be anything but irreparable, he had been distressed to discover that he felt…

— Milan Kundera