Accepting Quote by Thomas Mann

“Almost every artistic nature is born with a revealing connoisseurial tendency that appreciates injustice so long as it results in beauty and applauds, even…

— Thomas Mann

“But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often…

— Colleen McCullough

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity…

— Walter Bagehot

Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.

— Russell Smith

“From the outside looking in, i think my life would appear very isolated, occupying a huge empty space, with hollow-sounding, emotional echoes. But in…

— Jaeda DeWalt

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls.…

— Katie McGrath

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

— Henry Adams

“The truth was that, with the Duchess de Luxembourg, with Mme de Morienval, Mme de Saint-Euverte and any number of others, the features that…

— Marcel Proust

One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and…

— Marshall McLuhan

It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary…

— Bertrand Russell