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Quotes About Class

I've been a member of some good gyms in the past. I love a good spinning class; I love a good aerobics class.
~ Natalie Dormer
Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.
~ Noam Chomsky
I love a guy in a suit - someone who puts on his nice Armani pants.
~ Gena Lee Nolin
I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.
~ Jason Blum
Girl Snouts." "We are not," contradicted Sarah. "We're Girl Scouts." "Hup, two, three, four. Hup, two, three, four," counted Mrs. Collins, who was the jolly type and did not understand how parents sometimes embarrass their children. Down the hill marched the class. Mitchell felt Bernadette's toe on his heel again and jumped in time.
~ Beverly Cleary
Miss Binney stood in front of her class and began to read aloud from Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, a book that was a favorite of Ramona's because, unlike so many books for her age, it was neither quiet and sleepy nor sweet and pretty.
~ Beverly Cleary
reprimand. In her class she once informed us that any girl who wore red was "asking for anything she got." Of course word spread throughout Chaffey. The next day every girl who owned a red dress, skirt, or blouse wore it to school. One
~ Beverly Cleary
Incidentally, our standard image of servants in black uniforms with frilly caps, starched aprons and the like actually reflects a fairly short-lived reality. Servants' uniforms didn't become routine until the rise of cotton imports in the 1850s. Before then the quality of clothes worn by the upper classes was so instantly and visibly superior to that of the working classes that it wasn't necessary to distinguish servants with uniforms.
~ Bill Bryson
cockneys (which would make it one of the few instances in modern linguistics in which a manner of utterance traveled upward from the lower classes).
~ Bill Bryson
Don't lecture Trump. He doesn't like professors. He doesn't like intellectuals. Trump was a guy who "never went to class. Never got the syllabus. Never took a note. Never went to a lecture. The night before the final, he comes in at midnight from the fraternity house, puts on a pot of coffee, takes your notes, memorizes as much as he can, walks in at 8 in the morning and gets a C. And that's good enough. He's going to be a billionaire.
~ Bob Woodward
There have always been two senses of the word gentleman: the fine man of high birth and the fine man of good character.
~ Brad Miner
We then saw this same administration, desperate to reverse its falling poll numbers, continue to stoke the embers of class warfare. There is no more anti-American, anti-democracy rhetoric than this. To turn neighbor against neighbor because of the size of one's pocketbook is to plow the ground and sow it with the seeds of socialism. In America, only opportunity is assured, not outcomes. Anyone who promises otherwise is acting contrary to the values upon which our Republic was founded.
~ Brad Thor
I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never could.
~ Susanna Clarke
No class in boarding school or finishing school had ever dealt with how to avoid or fight against a kidnapping. And wrestling and fighting were so completely unacceptable they weren't even mentioned. Several headmistresses would be receiving a sternly worded letter if she survived this.
~ Suzanne Enoch
Evelyn Marie wanted to turn him into a gentleman. Well, he wanted to turn her into his mistress.
~ Suzanne Enoch
Brioni tux, he was both debonair and
~ Sylvia Day
The day I went into physics class it was death.
~ Sylvia Plath
The day I went into physics class is was death.
~ Sylvia Plath
There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki
~ Tamora Pierce
So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.
~ Tamora Pierce
Pride is something only folk with money can afford.
~ Tamora Pierce
Allie accepted it as her due that the plane had been overbooked and they were bumping her to first class. Or business class. Or whatever they were now calling those seats an adult could actually fit into.
~ Tanya Huff
Vulgarity is no substitute for wit
~ Julian Fellowes
Jules could have sworn there was a devilish glint in the shopkeepers eye. 'I find today I am in need of a bonnet.' Mr. Postlethwaite was silent. And then his eyes crept toward the marquess's hairline. 'It will be a gift for a woman, Mr. Postlethwaite.' 'Of course, sir.' The marquess wished the 'of course' sounded a bit more sincere. He'd scarcely been in the shop for more than three minutes and already his dignity was fraying.
~ Julie Anne Long