Matthew Stover Quotes

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

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

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

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

He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.

You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

He spoils his undoubted talents by his excessive assurance, his contempt for other people's point of view, and his attitude of a king in exile.

Privileges tied to nobility, titles and rank may not be enacted.

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

Character and class are character and class. Either you have it or you don't.

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home?' 'Marry my daughter?' You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons.

I'm not a snob. Ask anybody-well, anybody who matters.

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

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.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

Let them eat cake.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

There's no snobbery in me.