Elinor Glyn Quotes

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'm not from aristocracy, or anything like that.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

I was not to the manor born.

The Pedigree of Honey Does not concern the Bee- A Clover, any time, to him, Is Aristocracy-

What is the use of your pedigrees?

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

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

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

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.

Don't worry, don't worry. Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all those big society people. They were the worst thieves - and now look at them. It's just a matter of time.

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.

...a blue blood, a snob

Kings! Why, what's a king? .... Is their blood purer than our own? We are all the seed of Abraham!

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.

The Romanoffs are like the other side of 'The Great Gatsby.' 'Gatsby' is about the people who don't have the history but who want it. And 'The Romanoffs' is about the people who have it and don't know what to do with it.

What is high birth to him to whom high birth has never been the theme of his contemplation? What is a throne to him who has never dreamed of a throne?

To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is.

I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.