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

It is another kind of marriage - the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat's explanation and his excuse. — Frank Herbert

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom. — Georg Buchner

I am an aristocrat," Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. "I love liberty; I hate equality. — Colin Woodard

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese. — Gene Tierney

You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat. — Joe Strummer

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat. — James Weldon Johnson

Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it. — Muriel Barbery

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work. — Lytton Strachey

I was what some foolish persons are pleased to call, and others, more foolish, are pleased to be called - an aristocrat. — Ambrose Bierce

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

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike. — F. Sionil Jose

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat. — Benjamin Rush

Man,
the aristocrat amongst the animals. — Heinrich Heine

What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.
'Reverence,' he replied. — Elizabeth Goudge

Now our kids must have the qualities of both an old aristocrat and a modern technocrat. No wonder they're so busy, and so frantic. — William Deresiewicz

Scratch an intellectual, and you find a would-be aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound and the smell of common folk. — Eric Hoffer

The simple, rational garb of terminal illness had translated her into an aristocrat. A truly great lady lay there before us, pure as the stars. It — Magda Szabo

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

[Young people,] dress as attractively as you can. You are an aristocrat, a child of God. — Billy Graham

No aristocrat would sit in the wild grass to dream. Aristocrats have gardens for that, if they dream at all. — Sheri S. Tepper

how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty - which was to step aside and vanish into history. — Frank Herbert

An aristocrat in morals as in mind. — Owen Wister

There is nobody as hopelessly vulgar as a British aristocrat ... — Charles Finch

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem. — Kenneth Rexroth

She was what an aristocrat should be, porcelain and silk, unreachable, gracious, untainted by the dust of all this common death. — Tanith Lee

Excuse me, I must go and putt — P.G. Wodehouse

To die before coming to the end of willpower, was that not an aristocrat's choice? He — Frank Herbert

He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being. — D.H. Lawrence

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality. — John Randolph

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be. — Henry Latham Doherty

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

He was awfully good at being aristocratic. Alexia, on the other hand, was only good at being autocratic. Not quite the same thing. — Gail Carriger