Aristocracy Quote by James F. Cooper

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, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so is that kind of government.) Fellows that wear downy…

— Ambrose Bierce

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

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 is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

— Aristotle

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

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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 do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.

— Rachael Stirling

I have always believed that the aristocracy of any country should be the men who have succeeded - the men who have aided in…

— Charles M. Schwab

The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for…

— Charles M. Schwab

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould