English Aristocracy Quotes

The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.

Polo has always had an old-fashioned, aristocratic English feel.

When I left England and announced I was going to be an actress, the Windsors stopped speaking to me.

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not only the type, but is the crown and flower of all actual aristocracies; it has all the oligarchical virtues as well as all the defects. It is casual, it is kind, it is courageous in obvious matters; but it has one great merit that overlaps even these. The great and very obvious merit of the English aristocracy is that nobody could possibly take it seriously.