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| Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror -- and they last longer. | David Lloyd George | 1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| What is the use of your pedigrees? | Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal (c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet | |
| Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. | Edmund Burke | 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman |
| A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground. | English Saying | |
| 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. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the ARISTOCRACY, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| Democracy means government by the uneducated, while ARISTOCRACY means government by the badly educated. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
| Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own ARISTOCRACY based on excellence of performance. | James B. Connant | |
| All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
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| Lords are lordliest in their wine. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings. | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer |
| It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble! | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| An ARISTOCRACY in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead. | Nancy Mitford | 1904-1973, British Writer |
| I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. | Oliver Goldsmith | 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright |
| You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| The odious and disgusting ARISTOCRACY of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792-1822, British Poet |
| Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. | Solon | 636?-558? B.C., Greek Statesman |
| There is a natural ARISTOCRACY among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. | Thomas Jefferson | 1743-1826, Third President of the USA |
| ARISTOCRACY has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third. | Vicomte De Chateaubriand | 1768-1848, French Politician, Writer |
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| Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. | Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist |
| ARISTOCRACY is always cruel. | Wendell Phillips | 1811-1884, American Reformer, Orator |
