Quotes About Class

A classy guy had manners. He said please and thank you, Mr. and Miss, and held open doors. Classy guys picked up checks. They left good tips. They dressed with respect. They kept their word. They sent flowers. They apologized personally. They tried to be kind and courteous, even if they sometimes had to be firm, and their best jokes were about themselves. My mother's friends

Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite.

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

P.S. You'll have to meet with Dan's principal when you get back. He got in trouble for doing ninja moves in class. Don't worry. This happens all the time.

It's quite an interesting time, the '20s, because the politics of England were changing quite a lot, and the class structure was starting to shift a little.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

A robber is more high-toned than what a pirate is—as a general thing. In most countries they're awful high up in the nobility—dukes and such.

Presently it occurred to him that he wished he was sick; then he could stay home from school.

He was well born, as the saying is, and that's worth as much in a man as it is in a horse, so the Widow Douglas said...

best parents are poor people who have a little bit of money and rich people who have had a little bit of poverty.

I constantly craved the comforts of feminine attention, even though the thought of actually getting a girlfriend, one who was into me and wanted to be with me, seemed about as real as any dozen of the myths I'd been reading about in class.

His wife died from being too lower class. She wasn't up to it.

Humanitarian concerns are always dismissed as impractical, at least initially. Humanitarian concerns, however, aren't high on the national gay movement's list of priorities; if they were, we'd hear a lot more from them than we do about the inequities that derive from race, class, and gender.

Worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to realize their oneness and unity under God. Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the whosoever will, let him come, doctrine and is in danger of becoming a little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity.

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to realize their oneness and unity under God. Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously, caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the "whoso-ever will, let him come" doctrine, and is in danger of becoming little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity.

God bless the aristocracy. May they never learn to do their own plumbing.

In the ring this had always brought him considerable applause, but he had learned to his regret that in the class struggle the double Nelson was not done.

The younger we are, the more each individual object represents for us the whole class to which it belongs.

They're mostly rich folk who live in our poor country like captive animals, incarcerated by their own wealth, locked and barred in their gilded cages, protecting themselves from the threat of the vulgar and unruly multitudes whom they have systematically dispossessed over the centuries.

in Delhi there was no war other than the usual one – the war of the rich against the poor.

With a street-fighter's unerring insticts, Comrade Pillai knew that his straitened circumstances (his small, hot house, his grunting mother, his obvious proximity to the toiling masses) gave him a power over Chacko that in those revolutionary times no amount of Oxford education could match. He held his poverty like a gun to Chacko's head.

I couldn't help but think, however, that my social status played a role in all this.

dealing with the role of difference within the lives of american women: difference of race, sexuality, class, and age. The absence of these considerations weakens any feminist discussion of the personal and the political. It is a particular academic arrogance to assume any discussion of feminist theory without examining our many differences, and without a significant input from poor women, Black and Third World women, and lesbians.