Aristocracy Quote by Ian Fleming

“Men cannot survive without cheating, it is in their nature.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but…

— Herman Melville

“Though he was inquiring into himself as closely as he could, he never even told himself that he had been dishonest. Fraud and dishonesty…

— Anthony Trollope

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

— Thomas Jefferson

“The man in Drawing Room B, Car No. 4, was a newspaper publisher who believed that men are evil by nature and unfit for…

— Ayn Rand

“It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most precious of their possessions to…

— Georges Bernanos

“Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages,…

— Alexander Hamilton

“There were outlaws too; men too slothful to work and too selfish to care who they harmed or how much human suffering they caused.”

— C.M. Curtis

“Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“...which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world.”

— Andrea Lee

“Aristocracy has three successive stages: the age of superiority, the age of privilege, and the age of vanity. Once through with the first, it…

— Chateaubriand

“And so at last, instead of loving contention and glory, men become lovers of trade and money; they honour and look up to the…

— Plato