Aristocracy Quotations

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.