David Lloyd George Quotes

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order.

Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.

Titles were symbols, just as impressive buildings were symbols, except that titles, unlike buildings, cost nothing.

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

I was not to the manor born.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

All shall equal be. The Earl, the Marquis, and the Dook, The Groom, the Butler, and the Cook, The Aristocrat who banks with Coutts, The Aristocrat who cleans the boots.

In this country there is no rank but rank mutton.

There is no distinction of persons among them, and deference is shown to merit rather than to noble blood.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent.