Aristocratic Quotes

Aristocratic Quote of the day

My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.

It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor.

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story.

I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual.

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.

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

The aristocratic mind ... is anti-analytical. It is concerned more with the status of being than with the demonstrable relationship of parts.

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.