The-Aristocracy
Quotes on The Aristocracy
We, my lords, may thank Heaven that we have something better than our brains to depend on.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, man of letters
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
We may talk what we please of lilies and lions rampant, and spread eagles in fields d’or or d’argent; but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient of arms.
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) English author
There are bad manners everywhere, but an aristocracy is bad manners organized.
Henry James (1843-1916) American novelist
A fully equipped Duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and they are just as great a terror — and they last longer.
David Lloyd George (1863-1945) Welsh Liberal politician, prime minister
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes’ bastards,
Robert Burton (1577-1640) English clergyman, author
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
There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the tided for riches.
Hesketh Pearson (1887-1964) British biographer
Lords are lordliest in their wine.
John Milton (1608-1674) English poet
A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
17th-century English saying
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist
