Aristocracy quotes

◆ Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

- Thomas Jefferson100

◆ Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

- Samuel Butler99

◆ The aristocracy is in decline in the City, and the cloth-cap professionals are in the ascent. And we will take over.

- Paul Neild99

◆ Aristocracy is always cruel

- Wendell Phillips99

◆ 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 Mitford99

◆ The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

- Alexis De Tocqueville99