Quotes About Aristocracy

Of course all that these young bourgeois really wanted was to be aristocrats. They bought titles, married into aristocratic families whenever they could. And it's one of the little jokes of history that they got mixed up in the Revolution, and helped to abolish the class which in fact they really wanted to join.

Of course, it didn't surprise me to hear that educated people didn't believe in God, that they were infinitely more interested in science, that the aristocracy was much in ill favor, and so was the Church.

People may say . . . that all is made up and well again, but such breaches between great people are seldom or never so.

Yes, but it can be no condescension for the son of a count to serve the son of a king.

The author distinguishes George Washington's leadership from that of another aristocratic general whose temperament was somewhat cold. Unlike him, Washington made the effort to at least appear to suffer with his troops.

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

In the few days Seeker had been away, Hope had grown from abused girl to aristocratic young woman. It was in every line as she tilted her head to the side, listening to laughter floating down the sweeping stairwell-in the calluses on her fingertips and the smile at the edge of her eyes.

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

Hadrian controlled the empire in a way which had no precedent. What he did, at first perhaps by instinct, but later almost certainly as a calculated and largely successful policy, was to take the established dynamics of imperial rule and aristocratic behaviour and expand them beyond anything that had been seen before.

Political life was defined by money. Having it, taking it and giving it were the principal concerns of the powerful. It was not just a matter of lavish expenditure on public shows or comfortable living in the innumerable houses that one man might possess; set amounts of capital were required for a man to become an equestrian – a knight – or a senator.

Our poor country lies in Roman decadence. Where there is no longer an aristocracy worthy of itself, a nation dies. Our Nobles are conceited fools and cowards. I no longer believe in anything nor have any views. From Louis-Philippe we shall proceed to the first trimmer who will take us up, but only in order to pass us on to another. For we are without fibre and moral energy. Money has killed everything

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

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

Comtesse de Chagny, nee de Moerogis de La Martyniere

The literature favoured by the military aristocracy of the fifteenth century was not that of the traditional chivalric background but, rather, one based upon a growing appreciation of the military values of Rome (in particular) and of what these had to offer.

I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Mr. Humphrey's bluster died under the duchess's unwavering gaze. His nose twitched. "Yes, well, indeed. It is all highly irregular." Her grace smiled gently. "Duchesses can be 'highly irregular,' Mr. Humphrey. It's one of the perks of the position.

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

Dowered with great historic names which they almost despise, they do their best to drag the memory of their ancient lineage into dishonour by vulgar passions, low tastes, and a scorn as well as lack of true intelligence. Let us not talk of them. The English aristocracy was once a magnificent tree, but its broad boughs are fallen,--lopped off and turned into saleable timber,--and there is but a decaying stump of it left.

la peor enemiga de la propiedad y del gobierno era la nobleza latifundista, aquella aristocracia rentista que a menudo se las arregló para derribar a los gobiernos que limitaban sus poderes

la peor enemiga de la propiedad y del gobierno era la nobleza latifundista, aquella aristocracia rentista que a menudo se las arregló para derribar a los gobiernos que limitaban sus poderes, y que, por lo mismo, fue siempre una amenaza para la justicia, la paz social y el progreso.

It was one thing to talk of using technology to topple the authority of the aristocracy and the Church, but who or what would replace them? Diderot and the French revolutionaries had assumed it would be "the people." But as the nineteenth-century French historian Jules Michelet once wryly observed, "The people, in its highest ideal, is difficult to find in the people." As

He had a pride in being a poor man of a high family; he had a pride in repudiating the very family of which he was proud; and he had a special pride in keeping his pride silently to himself.