Descent

Famous quotes containing the word descent:

“When power becomes gracious and descends into the visible—such descent I call beauty.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)

“My life has been one long descent into respectability.”
—Mandy Rice-Davies (b. 1944)