Sean Bean

Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.

English Actor

Margaret Atwood

Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one?

Canadian Novelist

Theodor Herzl

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.

Hungarian Journalist

Abraham Lincoln

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

American President

Samuel Butler

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

British Poet

Charles Baudelaire

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

French Poet

David Lauren

Polo has always had an old-fashioned, aristocratic English feel.

American Designer

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Victor Hugo

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

French Author

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

American Clergyman

Implies a hierarchical society where some people are considered superior by birth.

Hierarchy Implication

Often associated with historical wealth, large estates, and hereditary titles.

Historical Wealth

Carries a sense of rank and privilege not earned but inherited.

Social Prestige

Suggests behavior that is elegant and often restrained, reflecting high social standing.

Behavioral Connotation

Implies being well-versed in fine arts, literature, and other cultural pursuits.

Cultural Sophistication

Often means maintaining composure and elegance in tough situations, as expected of nobility.

Grace Under Pressure

Refers to the influence that aristocrats might have over political decisions.

Political Leverage

Highlights the gap between aristocrats and other social classes financially and in status.

Economic Division

These policies can affect taxation, property rights, and social programs.

Policy Impact

 to fill the vast majority of their political posts. They knew that elections were aristocratic devices. They knew that career politicians were a thing to be avoided. And I think we know these things as well. But more interesting than the ancient use of random selection

What if we replaced...

 received a poem from one of colonial America’s most famous writers. Its verses praised the burgeoning revolution, invoking the goddess of their new nation to aid the general’s righteous cause. But this ode to liberty wasn’t written by some aloof, aristocratic admirer.

Why did Phillis Wheatley...

 bankruptcies, firing squads, religious visions, the burning of Moscow, and a semi-domesticated bear, but no exile and no political dissidents. Here's how it happened. Tolstoy, a volcanic soul, was born to a famously eccentric aristocratic family in 1828.

Why should you read...

 aristocratic women generally had more freedom. Yet the details of Sappho’s life remain mysterious, partially because only fragments of her poetry survive. In ancient times, however, so much of it persisted that it seemed it would last forever.

The surprising origins...

 these can often be understood the first time you hear them. And sometimes a new word isn't new at all. Obsolete words gain new life by adopting new meanings. Villain originally meant a peasant farmer, but in a twist of aristocratic snobbery

Where do new words come...

 splintered loyalties of many races would have proved difficult for the ablest of generals with strong armies at his command but Bolivar had never been a soldier he had no formal military training he was rich aristocratic born

The impact of Simón...

 And soon, no aristocratic home was complete without dedicated chocolate ware. The fashionable drink was difficult and time consuming to produce on a large scale. That involved using plantations and imported slave labor

The history of chocolate...

 each carefully selected as children from Rome's most aristocratic families. But now with her death, there are only five, and a new priestess must be chosen. The six-year-old Licinia witnessed the spectacle,

Who were the Vestal...

 The only positions filled by elections were those recognized as requiring expertise, such as generals. But these were considered aristocratic, meaning rule by the best,

What did democracy...

 the vampire we know the man with the widow's peak the aristocratic count eternal forever young sexual and seductive isn't real

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