"An aristocracy in a republic is like a……" — Nancy Mitford
"An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead."
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Nancy Mitford
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31 Quotes by Nancy Mitford
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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
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If one can't be happy, one must be amused....
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The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is.
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One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place.…
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Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and…
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Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry,
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And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so…
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I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
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I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
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Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
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I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
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To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
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More Aristocracy Quotes
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
— Charles Baudelaire
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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
— Josh Billings
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
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But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe…
— Benjamin Carson
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world,…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. .…
— James Bryant Conant
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