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Quotes about aristocracy
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. (Burke Edmund)
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. (Burke Edmund)
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. (Burke Edmund)
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. (Burke Edmund)
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast. (Burke Edmund)
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. (Burke Edmund)
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. (Burke Edmund)
What is the use of your pedigrees? (Burke Edmund)
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. (Burke Edmund)
Lords are lordliest in their wine. (Burke Edmund)
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. (Burke Edmund)
Aristocracy is always cruel. (Burke Edmund)
A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground. (Burke Edmund)
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. (Burke Edmund)
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse. (Burke Edmund)
It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble! (Burke Edmund)
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. (Burke Edmund)
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. (Burke Edmund)
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