Yes; even if a gentleman should lose his whole substance, he must never give way to annoyance. Money must be so subservient to gentility as never to be worth a thought. Of course, the SUPREMELY aristocratic thing is to be entirely oblivious of the mire of rabble, with its setting; but sometimes a reverse course may be aristocratic to remark, to scan, and even to gape at, the mob {for preference, through a lorgnette}, even as though one were taking the crowd and its squalor for a sort of raree show which had been organised specially for a gentleman's diversion.
( Fyodor Dostoyevsky )
[ The Gambler ]
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