Aristocracy quotes

“An aristocrat with no servants is as much use to the country as a glass hammer.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“No exiled fairy's trousseau is complete without a signed portrait of the great widow herself. You must dance naked before it at the Jubilee next month.”

Colin Firth - Reggie Turner

“- Count Von Rittenberg: Captain Hayes!
- Captain Bully Hayes: Admiral!
- Count Von Rittenberg: Count!
- Captain Bully Hayes: Whatever!”

Grant Tilly - Count Von Rittenberg
Tommy Lee Jones - Captain Bully Hayes

“My parents were born into the good life. Old money, blue blooded, society sweethearts.”
Christina Ricci - Penelope Wilhern

“- Society Girl: What's a baronet?
- Society Girl: Well, an aristocrat of some sort.
- Edith Cushing: A man that feeds off land that others work for him. A parasite with a title.”
Gillian Ferrier - Society Girl
Mia Wasikowska - Edith Cushing

“- Satine: I can't believe it. I'm in love. I'm in love with a young, handsome, talented duke.
- Christian: Duke?
- Satine: Not that the title's important, of course.
- Christian: I'm not a duke.
- Satine: Not a duke?
- Christian: I'm a writer.
- Satine: A writer?”
Nicole Kidman - Satine
Ewan Gordon McGregor - Christian

“- Cinderella: Yes, stepmother.
- Lady Tremaine: You needn't call me that. Madam will do.”
Lily James - Cinderella
Cate Blanchett - Stepmother

“- Heinz, the Baron Krauss von Espy: I am a baron.
- Miles Massey: Yes, but do you not also hold a day job? Paying job. A... uh, a square job.
- Heinz, the Baron Krauss von Espy: Well, one has to live. I am the concierge of Les Pantalons Rouges at Bad-Gadesbourg in the canton of Uri.
- Miles Massey: And what does that job entail?”
Jonathan Hadary - Heinz, the Baron Krauss von Espy
George Clooney - Miles

“- Queen Isabella I.: I shouldn't tolerate his impertinence.
- Sanchez: Then why?
- Queen Isabella I.: Because he is not afraid of me.”

Sigourney Weaver - Queen Isabel of Castille
Armand Assante - Sanchez

“I'm a genuine countess with a lot of dough, and if that's your wife she's a tub of guts.”
Zoe Caldwell - The Countess

“There was a time, not very long ago, where we lived in an enchanted world of elegant palaces and grand parties. The year was 1916, and my son, Nicholas, was the czar of Imperial Russia.”
Dame Angela Lansbury - The Dowager Empress Marie

“Lucy is a pure and virtuous girl. But, I admit that her free way of speaking shocks me sometimes. Jonathan says it is a defect of the aristocracy that they say what they please. The truth is that I admire Lucy, and I'm not surprised that men flock around her. I wish I were as pretty and as adored as she.”
Winona Ryder - Mina Murray

“- Johnny Dio: How do you like your steak?
- Paul Cicero: Medium rare.
- Johnny Dio: Huh. An aristocrat.”
Frank Pellegrino - Johnny Dio
Paul Sorvino - Paul Cicero

“I don't think race or country matters a damn. What matters, Colonel, is justice. Which is why I'm here. I'll be treated as I deserve, not as my father deserved. I'm Kilrain and I damn all gentlemen. There is only one aristocracy, and that is right here [points to his head]. And that's why we've got to win this war.”

Kevin Conway - Sgt. "Buster" Kilrain

“- King Mongkut: l have decided to give self anniversary dinner and invite important English nobles and diplomats.
- Anna Leonowens: l don't understand.
- King Mongkut: French lndochina grows stronger and more aggressive. But if l improve our foreign intercourse with your queen's special envoy, French will think three times before trying to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut
Jodie Foster - Anna

“- Antonio de Marchena: If God intends you to go, you will go.
- Columbus: Damn God! Damn of all of you! You all sit at your desks concocting theories! Based on what? You never leave the protection of your gardens. Go out! Find out what the world is about and then tell me something I can accept.”
Fernando Rey - Marchena
Gérard Depardieu - Columbus

“- Vladimir: We have found the heir to the Russian throne. And you...
- Dimitri: Will walk out of her life forever.
- Vladimir: But...
- Dimitri: Princesses don't marry kitchen boys.”
Kelsey Grammer - Vladimir
John Cusack - Dimitri

“- Sanchez: You are too ambitious.
- Columbus: And were you never ambitious? Or is ambition only a virtue among nobles and a fault for the rest of us?”
Armand Assante - Sanchez
Gérard Depardieu - Columbus