Antiquity Quote by Sophie Swetchine

Antiquity is the aristocracy of history

— Alexandre Dumas Père

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

— Joseph Glanvill

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

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

— Desiderius Erasmus

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

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

— Michelle Dockery

But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the…

— Henry Edward Manning

Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.

— Thomas Paine

How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others,…

— Thomas Paine

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

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

— Charles Caleb Colton