Quote by Tim Rogers

“What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly. 'Reverence,' he replied.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

“As in the case of many misanthropes, his disdain for people led him into a profession designed to serve them.”

— Toni Morrison

“I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest genealogy; and…

— Charlotte Bronte

“I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image,…

— J.G. Ballard

“You are young, Father Iron Horse, and you have a young man’s vices. Certainty. Shortsightedness. Contempt for pragmatism.”

— Mary Doria Russell

“In a word, why were they not men at worst, when at best they ought to be more of men than other men?--And here…

— George MacDonald

“There is nobody as hopelessly vulgar as a British aristocrat...”

— Charles Finch

“I swore I'd never become some lord's brainless arm ornament and political host, but I've become far worse. I'm a glorified housekeeper and sperm…

— J.L. Langley

“My feelings-let's hold on to this idea of them as shuffling Victorians, let's make them servants, an entire uniformed household staff- were fresh, raw,…

— Joan Wickersham

“She's an aristocrat who advocates –words worn across centuries—for women's rights.”

— Maxine Kumin

“And there you sit, gloating over what you have done, as if you were a martyr or a public benefactor -- as complacent and…

— Hope Mirrlees

“He turned from the daughters of minor aristocrats to those of farriers, farmers and foresters. Personally he couldn't tell the difference, yet the world…

— Diane Setterfield