#aristocrat

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#absolutely not #aristocratic #change #creature #exuberant

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today. ↗

— Lincoln Kirstein

#absolute freedom #anarchy #anxious #aristocratic #authority

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#aristocrat #career #cast #chinese #frontier

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 Tocqueville

#american society #aristocratic #breaking #colours #covered

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#explanations #harvard #tired #words

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image. ↗

— Michael York

#been #bring #british #cannot #dinner

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#aristocratic #democratic #tastes

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#aristocratic #attitude #culture #does #emotions

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

— Samuel Butler

#aristocratic #atmosphere #common #common sense #live

The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#aristocratic #because #burroughs #dug #guy