Quotes about Aristocracy

vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry.

to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.

But there is no such thing, sir, as a ghost, and I guess the laws of Nature are not going to be suspended for the British aristocracy

Rich and idle and ornamental societies must produce many more such situations;

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Like the proverbial dead fish that rots first from the head, British society began to decay from the top; so our description of the situation must begin with the aristocracy.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

Definition of the upper crust: A bunch of crumbs held together by dough.

I am covered with fine gold, said the Prince, you must take it off, leaf by leaf, and give it to my poor.

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.

At a stroke she had pricked the van der Luydens and they collapsed. He laughed, and sacrificed them.