Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
Aristocracy Quotes (72 Quotes)
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters of culture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.
There is a theory of societal evolution that goes like this Barbarians invent a new culture. A middle class emerges to manage and help perpetuate the culture. An aristocracy eventually develops out of the middle class and devotes their energies to making things comfortable for themselves. Finally, a new set of barbarians smash everything apart and destroy the status quo so that the process must start all over again.
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.
I think it's because Lady Tottington and Victor are aristocrats,
The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people'.' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler a Kaiser no Presidents and democracies.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
If you can sit through The Aristocrats and laugh at it, you come out the other end realizing that to be made to laugh at it robs the telling of it of the power to shock and sting. It's why (word-abusing comic George) Carlin is in the movie. It's basically a lesson about words, how we can give power to words and take it back. Comedy lubricates that transaction sometimes.
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.
If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.
Napoleon's troops fought in bright fields, where every helmet caught some gleams of glory but the British soldier conquered under the cool shade of aristocracy. No honours awaited his daring, no despatch gave his name to the applauses of his countrymen his life of danger and hardship was uncheered by hope, his death unnoticed.
Maybe we're doing something right, ... I don't mean to sound greedy, but my only regret is that a couple of our films had a good shot 'The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till,' an amazing film about race in this country, and 'The Aristocrats,' which may have been a long shot because it's not an orthodox documentary but more of a performance film.
She, I hate to say it, uses men to move herself up. It's kind of a rags to riches story, but she was not well-liked by the military or the aristocracy. It's like 'Cinderella,' only the ending is not happy.
If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.
Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. Class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated to ancestors or money. Some extremely wealthy people have no class at all, while others who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it. Class is real. You can't fake it. Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not attempt to look better by making others look worse. Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because he is comfortable with himself. If you have class, you've got it made. If you don't have class, no matter what else you have, it won't make up for it.
Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
'Bourgeois,' I observed, 'is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what is respectable, and the aristocracy to what is decent'.
An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.
Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIIIAdmit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system, and set the serfs and villains free admit that the press demolished the monasteries, nunneries, and religious houses into whose hands did all these alienated baronies, monasteries, and religious houses and lands fall Into the hands of the democracy Into the hands of serfs and villains Serfs and villains were the only real democracy in those time. No. They fell into the hands of other aristocrats....