Quotes About Aristocracy

Miss Princess

marquess. Old English eorl, of Germanic origin. The word earl originally denoted a man of noble rank, as opposed to a churl, also specifically a hereditary nobleman next above the rank of thane. It was later an equivalent of JARL and, under Canute and his successors, applied to the governor of divisions of England such as Wessex. In the late Old English period, as the Saxon court came under Norman influence, the word was applied to any nobleman bearing the continental title

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

I am astonished but not discouraged by my enormous responsibility. Devoted both from affection and duty to the cause of the people, I shall combat with equal ardor aristocracy, despotism, and faction.

There is no need to tell you that the 'Prince of Salina' is the Prince Lampedusa, my great-grandfather Giulio Fabrizio.

Well, that's the upper classes for you," said Strike. "By all means throttle their kids, but don't touch their horses.

Life in squats with my mother hadn't really prepared me for what to expect from the aristocracy. On balance, I'd have to say people were a lot better behaved in the squats.

The phrase American Dream has a ring of truth to it as a statement of American values. The United States is a proud country that has no aristocracy, allows no titles or royalty, announces in its Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal," and allows free enterprise to proceed with little government interference. However, it is also a country that permitted slavery until 1863.

As we gather in all the scenes that satirize Hollywood aristocracy, we realize that commercial films that presume to instruct society on how to solve its shortcomings are certain to be false. For, with few exceptions, most filmmakers, like Sullivan, are not interested in the suffering poor as much as the picturesque poor.

avowed preference for an elite based on merit was misconstrued by enemies into a secret adoration of aristocracy.

George Washington noted the hypocrisy of the many slaveholding antifederalists: "It is a little strange that the men of large property in the South should be more afraid that the Constitution will produce an aristocracy or a monarchy than the genuine, democratical people of the East.

the government must degenerate either into an absolute and despotic monarchy or a tyrannical aristocracy.

he worried that a separate senate, elected solely by propertied voters, will "degenerate into a body purely aristocratical.

Their strategy was to make clients feel accepted into a private club, as if a Morgan account were a membership card to the aristocracy.

Most absurd of all was the fact that we, the "oldest inhabitants," the permanent residents, considered ourselves the aristocrats of the camp and looked down in utter scorn on this flotsam of strange faces that came drifting in.

Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.

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

Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.

paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding.