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Quotes About Class

The Hotel Clappe, spelled that way to give it that extra bit of class, looked just like it sounded; the kind of duty, disgusting dump where you rented rooms by the hour, and a fresh pair of sheets was a luxury. Good-time girls and others stalked their prey in the underlit streets, and the crabs were so big they leapt out of dark alleyways to mug passersby.
~ Simon R. Green
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~ Simon Schama
When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town. Poor people don't post signs like NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE DRIVE, PRIVATE PROPERTY, MONITORED BY CAMERA SURVEILLANCE. I should know because I've been poor my entire life, and the only person I know who ever posted a sign like these is my friend...and he actually stole the sign off a rich guy's yard.
~ Simone Elkeles
When Brittany walks into Mrs. P.'s class on Friday I'm still thinking about how I'm going to get back at her for throwing my keys into the woods last weekend. It took me forty-five minutes to find the suckers, and all the while I was cursing Brittany. Okay, so I give her props for dishing it out.
~ Simone Elkeles
I seriously don't give a crap how I get the pants; just that I get 'em before my next class. A wet crotch is not the way to show Brittany I'm a stud.
~ Simone Elkeles
It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Having so-called "blue-blood" does not automatically mean that person has class. It just means somewhere down the road someone in their family was once someone of note. It's been my experience that blue-bloods and real nobility and royalty never mix. (Or at least they do not mix well.)
~ Sir Dennis Hamilton
The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.
~ Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses.
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.
~ Cecelia Ahern
I love the return of sweetness and lace. Ladylike dressing is back and it's beautiful.
~ Glenda Bailey
I love wearing suits. I love being suited and booted. When I'm chilling, I also like to look nice.
~ Dwight Howard
A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love - and if a pretty woman, all the better.
~ Charles Darwin
Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
~ W. S. Gilbert
His likes were video games, not going to class, not talking about his past . . . And Stevie.
~ Maureen Johnson
Every rich man's house has a servant's entrance.
~ Max Brooks
Here in the United States we appear to be becoming more and more a country devoted to amenities for the rich, more and more neglectful of the poor.
~ May Sarton
If one was dying, it had to be done in style if the dying took place in whitefolks' part of town.
~ Maya Angelou
Remember if you decide for the Army, I'll support you. If you decide to be a whore, all I can say is, be the best. Don't be a funky chippy. Go with class.' She
~ Maya Angelou
This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.
~ Meg Cabot
She went to the most expensive private girls' school in Connecticut. All they taught her there was how to fold doilies. Pointedly ignoring Alex, I said to John, I'm sure if you show me, I'll catch on. Excellent.John's gaze on me was warm. Then later perhaps you could show me how to fold doilies.
~ Meg Cabot
I do believe that Akretenesh saw no differences between a woman who was a queen and one who was a seamstress, though he would recognize all the differences in the world between a prince and a farmer.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
What would you do if you were King's Thief, Gen? Chew with your mouth open in the royal presence? Chat with the court ladies, dropping the h's at the beginning of your words and garbling the ends of most of them? Everything about you reveals your low birth. You'd never be comfortable at the court.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
This is college?' Schyler asked. 'or Downton Abbey?
~ Melissa de la Cruz