His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]
Heather O'NeillTag: childhood aristocrats jd-salinger
You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists
G.K. ChestertonTag: anarchy aristocrats poor
Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity, you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad.
Terry PratchettTag: aristocrats being-wrong aristocracy being-right
But…” Both men looked over inquiringly when Maximus spoke. “But I never asked you to help me with Noakes.”
Makepeace nodded, his expression grave. “You didn’t have to.”
“You never had to,” St. John concurred.
Tag: friendship aristocrats elizabeth-hoyt maiden-lane duke-of-midnight ghost-of-st-giles
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