Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

There is only one class of men, the privileged class

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Aristocracy is naturally abhorrent to me, and adored equality is my idol.

In Gravity clad, He has nought in his Head, But Visions of Nobles & Kings With Commons below, Who respectfully bow, And worship the dignified Things

I intended to be one of the governing class.

We need leisure ... because with us every man is of the ruling class.

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

What is Aristocracy? A corporation of the best, the bravest.

Chile is still at the whim of powerful, traditional elites who sit as a higher societal authority than the elected government.

The present King and Queen are popular, very, and increasingly so, but they have no message for the Labour Party who believe them, and rightly I fear, to be but the puppets of a Palace clique…. Still, it is the aristocracy which still rules England although nobody seems to believe it.

There shall not be intermarriage between plebeians and patricians

I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country

A Plowman on his knees is higher than a Gentleman on his legs.

I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.

When posh boys are in trouble they sack their servants.

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales.

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.