(6 quotes found)
“The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and gone to seed”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Whereas the gentleman always seeks to deserve his position, the aristocrat, disdainful and insouciant, is quite happy just to exploit it.”
Simon Raven
“This game has created a whirlwind of demand for Aristocrat products that does not appear to have peaked.”
Steven Kent
“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.”
Susan Sontag
“Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.”
Damien Hirst
“It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.”
Christopher Bailey
