Accomplishment Quote by James Bryant Conant

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

— James Bryant Conant

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

— James Bryant Conant

The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no aristocracy save…

— Calvin Coolidge

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 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

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

Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere…

— Harriet Martineau

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

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

“I believe in aristocracy. . . — if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of…

— E. M. Forster

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

— Michelle Dockery

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

— Tennessee Williams