One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
— Dalton Trumbo
The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Of England's patrician class, the author writes: It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing. — Kristin Scott Thomas
The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible. — Nick Harkaway
And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible. — Terry Pratchett
The Patrician could read," said Spelter. "Not if you cut off his index finger," said Carding. — Terry Pratchett
He said. Academy alumni with quantitative skills go on to become stockbrokers. There are damned few patrician scientists. — Natalie Angier
The Patrician was not a man you shook a finger at unless you wanted to end up being able to count only to nine. — Terry Pratchett
Gentlemen, please," said the Patrician. He shook his head. "Let's have no fighting, please. This is, after all, a council of war. — Terry Pratchett
In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people. — Jared Harris
He didn't administer a reign of terror, just the occasional light shower. — Terry Pratchett
You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away. — Terry Pratchett
