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I liked being Doc Holliday. It`s fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for him. It was fun to be arrogant like he was and have the goods to back it up. He was a very noble character. Although, let`s not forget, he did kill a lot of people. - On Tombstone (1993).

- Val Kilmer

Aristocratic women definitely had influence in ancient Rome and knew how to influence powerful men,

- Lindsay Duncan

The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man.

- Gregory Corso

Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that`s posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can`t take it any more is different.

- Damien Hirst

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

- Aislinn Ryan

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

- Alice Raine

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

- Amy Uriell

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.

- Lincoln Kirstein

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

- Alexis de Tocqueville