Blue Blood Quotes

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

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.

When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

Anyone's blood can become blue for a lump sum down.

Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouth perpetually full of it. They swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word.

...a blue blood, a snob

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

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.

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

Successful men don't date up. They are intimidated by wealthy women unless they are blue bloods. Successful men want to always take care of their women, and that means financially.

People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.

My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

I'm not from aristocracy, or anything like that.

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

Kate Middleton has no blue blood coursing through her veins. Her father, Michael, is self-made, and he and his wife have been very successful with their party business, but they are and always will be strictly middle class.

We were descended from royalty.

The thing that makes Lexington so interesting is that it's a mash-up between blue blood and bohemian.

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.

We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.