Aristocracy famous quotes

We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.
-- Alice Tisdale Hobart

#Moving #Health #Aristocracy

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.
-- Anatole Broyard

#Government #Aristocracy #Might

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Church #Aristocracy #Population

Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.
-- Bob Saget

#People #Aristocracy #Want

I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to see it, especially her guy friends.
-- Bob Saget

#Kids #Guy #Aristocracy

I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
-- Caitlin Moran

#Class #Aristocracy #Campaigns

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
-- Camille Paglia

#World #Weakness #Aristocracy

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
-- Celia Green

#People #Democracy #Aristocracy

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Aristocracy #Serious #Consciousness

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.
-- Denis Kearney

#Despair #Aristocracy #Add

There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
-- E. M. Forster

#Victory #Aristocracy #Chaos

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
-- Epicurus

#Inspirational #History #Aristocracy

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
-- Ezra Stiles

#Aristocracy #Chance #Monarchy

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
-- Frank Herbert

#Government #Class #Aristocracy

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.
-- Gene Kelly

#Aristocracy #Proletariat

Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?
-- Harold Pinter

#Class #Aristocracy #Want

Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.
-- Harriet Martineau

#America #Aristocracy #Republic

The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves.
-- Henry George

#Special #Aristocracy #Slavery

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
-- Henry James Sumner Maine

#Law #Events #Aristocracy

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.
-- James Bryant Conant

#Excellence #Aristocracy #Calling

Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, Im very fortunate.
-- James Ransone

#Gratitude #Aristocracy #Lasts

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
-- James Salter

#Feelings #Aristocracy

Lords are lordliest in their wine.
-- John Milton

#Wine #Society #Aristocracy

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
-- John Updike

#Marriage #Teacher #Aristocracy

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.
-- Josiah Strong

#Europe #Aristocracy #Scientism

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#America #Aristocracy #Wealth

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy
-- Kenneth Rexroth

#Aristocracy #Revolution #Members

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
-- Lord Acton

#Numbers #Democracy #Aristocracy

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 reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales.
-- Marcel Proust

#Fashion #Son #Aristocracy

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.
-- Mercy Otis Warren

#Independence #Liberty #Aristocracy

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
-- Moliere

#Mean #Aristocracy #Birth

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Book #Long #Aristocracy

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.
-- Nigel Cole

#Class #England #Aristocracy

I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.
-- Paloma Faith

#Thinking #Proud #Aristocracy

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy,
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Spiritual #Religion #Aristocracy

An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.
-- Thomas Jefferson

#Government #Politics #Aristocracy

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
-- W. H. Auden

#Responsibility #Aristocracy #Poetic

Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.
-- William Dwight Whitney

#Aristocracy #Finals #Language

As you get older and more successful, you don't get magnetically drawn to aristocracy, you get magnetically drawn to power, and it gets magnetically drawn to you. It's a symbiosis whether you like it or not.
-- Duncan Roy

#Successful #Aristocracy #Symbiosis

The best work in the world was always done by members of the aristocracy.
-- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

#Aristocracy #Done #World

I mean, already in the French Revolution, the harpsichord becomes identified with the aristocracy, with the ancien regime. Plus, hey, you know, I mean, harpsichord is a really easy target, isn't it? I mean, it's - it's just how it is.
-- Mahan Esfahani

#Mean #Revolution #Aristocracy

This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that time to grow here naturally. We have no aristocracy but of virtue and talent, which is the only true aristocracy, and is the old and true meaning of the term.
-- Thomas D'Arcy McGee

#Class #Land #Aristocracy

Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.
-- Ramsay MacDonald

#War #Aristocracy #Profit

Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.
-- Ramsay MacDonald

#Kissing #Waiting #Aristocracy

The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.
-- Ronald Syme

#Vitality #Aristocracy #Empires