- Gin
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aristocratic Quotes
Sayings on aristocracy, restraint, and inherited leadership.
These quotes explore aristocratic ideas in culture and politics, from stoic, reserved attitudes to debates about whether leadership can run in families. One speaker admits enjoying "aristocratic mean girl" roles despite not finding them Amazingly believable.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.
- Centered
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- Nov 07, 2020
'A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, centered on a legendary pre-Victorian casino and her four scandalous aristocratic owners.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
- Comforted
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- Nov 07, 2020
American political scions evoke a central contradiction in our thinking. We believe - or say we do - in nurture, not nature. Yet we are comforted by the aristocratic notion that leadership might run in the bloodlines.
- Compact
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- Nov 07, 2020
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
- Funny Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nabokov can be almost too delicate at times, but in 'Lolita,' he puts his aristocratic sensitivity to use in such a dark tale that it creates this great tension between the story being told and the style that it's written in. And it's just amazing that one of the best novels in English was written by a Russian.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020