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The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give me one man
from among ten thousand
if he is the best — Heraclitus

Anyone's blood can become blue for a lump sum down. — Nancy Astor

And so he drifted back to London ... where he lived a life of increasingly busy idleness as he searched out one diversion after another — Mary Balogh

Established churches not infrequently formed an alliance with the aristocracy , joining arm in arm against change. — John Ferling

The aristocracy had crumbled in her hands; the power vacuum she purchased was a good decision. — Charli Frisky

One of the interesting things is is that Judaism was very attractive to the Roman aristocracy. — Susan Jacoby

Not to mention the fact that seppuku is the aristocracy of suicide. And I'm not saying that just because my parents called me Mishima. — Jean Teule

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy. — George Bernard Shaw

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

That was what the season was, after all- a marriage market for the offspring of the aristocracy. — Marissa Doyle

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

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth. — Robert Reich

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy. — Anthony Trollope

You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate. — John Adams

The Roman Republic would soon be destroyed by the unfettered energy of its great men. The redeeming feature of this aristocracy and — Will Durant

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses. — Benjamin Disraeli

Lords are lordliest in their wine. — John Milton

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

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

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men. — D.H. Lawrence

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

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms. — Sophie Swetchine

But there is no such thing, sir, as a ghost, and I guess the laws of Nature are not going to be suspended for the British aristocracy — Oscar Wilde

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

Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate. — James Ransone

When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most. — Wendell Phillips

Aristocracy is always cruel. — Wendell Phillips

England was ruled by an aristocracy constantly recruited from parvenus — George Orwell

Democracy raises up a natural prince for its leader, and aristocracy infuses a princely spirit among the people. — Inazo Nitobe

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

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

It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant. — Kevin Hearne

Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes. — David Lloyd George

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives. — Napoleon Bonaparte

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy. — Napoleon Bonaparte

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. — Thomas Jefferson

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius

The law for religious freedom ... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind. — Thomas Jefferson

Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species. — Thomas Paine

Like the aristocracy, you can tell a reporter's status by his clothes and manners. The worse they are, the higher up they are, — Iain Pears

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

The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book ... — Catharine Beecher

Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God. — Ambrose

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

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes. — John Keats

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. — G.K. Chesterton

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

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

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity — Thomas Jefferson

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

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

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

There is only one true aristocracy ... and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! — Tennessee Williams

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire

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

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound. — John B. S. Haldane

Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses. — Charles A. Beard

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. — Algernon Sidney

I'll be back later! Put that champagne on ice! — Jackie Williams

If England wants a happy, well-fed aristocracy, she mustn't have wars. She can't have it both ways. — P.G. Wodehouse

Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. — Ken Follett

The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag. — Thomas Carlyle

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money. — George Bernard Shaw

Believers in aristocracy and socialism share a faith in centralized rule, in rule by command rather than by voluntary cooperation. — Milton Friedman

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

London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting. — John Legend

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

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night. — P.G. Wodehouse

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

There is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

An hereditary aristocracy ... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world. — Thomas Jefferson

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead. — Nancy Mitford

I'm not from aristocracy, or anything like that. — Michelle Dockery

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

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. — Mark Twain

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

Felix Mersey might be the cream of the aristocracy, but in the boiler room Soap was undisputed king - grimy empire though it might be. — Gail Carriger

Despite a lifetime of social indoctrination, Marcus did not believe in aristocracy of any kind. — Lisa Kleypas

The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority. — Marquis De Lafayette

To recreate a new aristocracy is the eternal task of every revolutionary project. — Guillaume Faye

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

...which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world. — Andrea Lee

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand. — Walter Savage Landor

So many secrets," he said. "The Dallas Aristocracy and their freaking secrets. — R.J. Scott

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding. — Aristotle.

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election must be a matter of chance. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. — Emily Dickinson

We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy. — Joel Kinnaman

The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god. — G.K. Chesterton

Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice. — Thomas Paine

Down with tyranny!' Bramble cried. 'Aristocracy! Autocracy! Monocracy! Other ocracy things! You are outnumbered, sir! Surrender! — Heather Dixon

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

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