Aristocracy Quote by Marcel Proust

Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and…

— Marcel Proust

“O my brothers, I dedicate and direct you to a new nobility: you shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the future-verily, not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“My visit to Her Highness was an agreeable surprise for me. Instead of being ushered into the presence of an over-decorated woman, sporting diamond…

— Manu S. Pillai

“From my personal experiences, it is evident that so many wealthy females within the kingdom are devoted to little else but frivolity, with their…

— Jean Sasson

“Those who by valorous ways become princes...acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease.”

— W.K. Marriott

“Often the poor have more nobility in them than the actual nobility.”

— Amish Tripathi

“Where’s the nobility in patching up a bunch of old tables and chairs? Corrosive to the soul, quite possibly. I’ve seen too many estates…

— Donna Tartt

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his pocket, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Princes know themselves to be princes, and are not snobs; besides, they believe themselves to be so far above everything that is not of…

— Marcel Proust

“The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.” I gave further thought to the life of what we…

— Gary Keesee

“So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and…

— William Makepeace Thackeray