Meg Cabot Quotes

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

… an army of Gatsbys wanting not to overturn the social order but only to belong to the upper crust.

An Englishman

Davos is probably the world's most elite society, but it dresses itself up as a non-elite event. Don't be fooled. You must wear a specially coloured badge, which shrieks your status to others.

The country I live in is never clear about its name. My passport says 'the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,' and citizens of the U.K. may call themselves British, English, Scottish, Welsh or from Northern Ireland.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

I don't think you can have any actual idea of what the Royal Family are really like from how they are portrayed in the papers.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

The Clique: The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.

In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other respects, could export a great deal of snobbery to Australia and still have enough to spare for their own, internal needs.

Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.

Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.

By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

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.

The core of Animal House was about prejudice, about equality, and about inclusion/exclusion. It was about a group of people who were together and anything went. Anybody who wanted in could get it in. Then there was that other group that nobody could get in, unless they were white, and just alike. It was very representative of the culture in the '60s, '50s, and '40s in America.

The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.

There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.You could claim that it's due to my military experience. But it came before that. I love their freedom of behavior. They're not constrained by penal attitudes, puritanical attitudes about behavior, both socially and morally. They have a freedom that I admire. An unquestioned freedom.

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

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.