Action Quote by Lytton Strachey

The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life...

— Barbara Tuchman

“The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it were admirable,…

— Amor Towles

“slightly older men and women, they had professions and soft slacks with knife pleats and a certain ease of bearing and belonging, the package…

— Don DeLillo

“Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy, on the contrary, gives men a sort…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry and court…

— Marianne Curley

I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the really old-money families, the concept of…

— Lorde

“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

The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

— Ronald Syme

“As far as she was concerned, aristocracy had nothing to do with money or social position. Aristocracy was linked to a nobility of mind,…

— Patricia Bosworth

Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue…

— Thomas Jefferson