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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
— Walt Whitman
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
— Johan Huizinga
To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.
— George Bernard Shaw
Had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.
— Oscar Wilde
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
— Richard Cobden
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding.
— Alexandre Dumas
Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
— George Santayana
History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.
— Henry Adams
Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.
— J.G. Holland
Darwin, writing in Victorian England, shared Glaucon's view (from aristocratic Athens) that people are obsessed with their reputations.
— Jonathan Haidt
The society had a vast number of ceremonies and observances, but it had no history and no object; that was where it was so very aristocratic.
— G.K. Chesterton
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The aristocratic mind ... is anti-analytical. It is concerned more with the status of being than with the demonstrable relationship of parts.
— Richard M. Weaver
Most people who go to Rajasthan go to Udaipur, Jodhpur or Jaipur.
— Gautam Singhania
I have an aristocratic smile and like to punch people.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
— Victor Hugo
That is the most odiously aristocratic belief,
— Stephen Crane
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
It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.
— Frank Herbert
If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?''Well, Lu, velvet is like the world was just born. Clean and new and so smooth. — Toni Morrison
This complete ignorance of the realities, this innocent view of mankind, is what, in my opinion, constitutes the truly aristocratic. For
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Don't fear the darkness, be the light of hope.
— Debasish Mridha
at the time of my visit he still had failed to
— Elizabeth Kolbert
In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
— Brad Holland
Steeped like a teabag in aristocratic pretensions ...
— Philip Roth
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
— Maximilien Robespierre
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
— Charles Baudelaire
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work.
— Colleen McCullough
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
— Red Barber
I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.
— George Eliot
It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief.
— Louisa May Alcott