Top Aristocracy Quotes

It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty outpourings of loyalty toward their king and Church and nobility; as if they had any more occasion...

As she gracefully descended down portico, the white gloved hand of the lady of the estate met the white-glove worn by a Negro footman, as a vast expanse of hoop skirt filled the carriage doorway. It w...

Aristocracy Definition

(n.) Government by the best citizens.

(n.) A ruling body composed of the best citizens.

(n.) A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy.

(n.) The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect.

Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live i...

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who w...

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you? He answered, Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born...

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

The only thing for what you are bound is to be in your limit.

..the guests milled back and forth: men stood with their heads together, discussing politics and crops, their stiff white shirts puffed and ruffled, their voices rising and falling in steadfast opinio...

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Don't tell me, Mrs. Archer would say to herchildren, all this modern newspaper rubbishabout a New York aristocracy. If there is one,neither the Mingotts nor the Mansons belong toit; no, nor the Newlan...

I say, you don't know how I could raise fifty quid somehow, do you?Why don't you work?Work? said young Bingo, surprised. What, me? No, I shall have to think of some way.