Linda Colley

Monarchs, aristocrats, and other powerful and wealthy individuals have usually been happy to have themselves and their possessions and families immortalised in oil paintings and sculpture. But before the 20th century, such dynasts rarely commissioned artworks that set out to represent society as a whole.

British Historian

Michael York

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.

British Actor

Sade Adu

I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

Nigerian Musician

Diane Arbus

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.

American Photographer

John Updike

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

American Novelist

James Weldon Johnson

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

American Poet

F. Sionil Jose

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

Filipino Writer

Georg Buchner

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

German Dramatist

John Randolph

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.

American Leader

Benjamin Bratt

I'm not an aristocrat. I have no idea what that is.

American Actor

The term is often associated with wealth and power within a hierarchical system.

Social Status

In history, 'aristocrat' indicates a member of the ruling class or nobility, especially in Europe.

Historical Context

'Aristocrat' may imply inheritance of position and privilege by birth, not personal achievement.

Hereditary Title

'Aristocrat' connotes having admirable, refined behaviors and virtues, regardless of birth.

Behavioral Expectations

An 'aristocrat' is often someone who upholds high ethical standards and integrity.

Moral Standards

'Aristocrat' suggests a taste for fine, elegant things in art, fashion, or living.

Elegance

 Aristocrats at a cocktail party fret about the looming violence, but then change the topic to those things aristocrats always seem to care money, sex, and death. This first scene is indicative of the way the book bounces between the political and personal

Why should you read...

 special victim a young Celtic aristocrat we know from the forensic evidence studying the body of lindo man that he was of high status his fingernails were manicured he was neatly shaved he was in the prime of life he'd been groomed for this

Ancient Human Sacrifice...

 he was fatherless by eight he was an orphan having lost his mother to tuberculosis by nineteen he was a widower having lost his young wife to yellow fever soon after he and his brother joined a band of aristocrats

The impact of Simón...

 but I'm your 12th cousin." And it said, "I have a family tree with 80,000 people on it, including you, Karl Marx, and several European aristocrats." Now I did not know what to make of this.