Quotes About Class

He summed me up very accurately for what I was: a lady, so called-a sort of a snob-and totally insecure.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

When the middle and upper classes feared water, roughly from the Renaissance to the end of the eighteenth century, they washed as little as peasants or the urban poor.

Because the middle classes and the nouveaux riches welcomed gas, water closets and piped-in water, the upper classes drew back. Many a denizen of a sprawling, stony-cold country estate looked on "mod cons" as slightly uncouth, over-eager and—worst of all—middle-class.

At playtime she twirled and spun across the playground so fast that none of the little boys in her class could catch her and they were all very cross.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

It is something of a tragedy for young girls of good family that they cannot carry on a love-affair in a simple, straightforward way, in secret, below their station if need be, as do their sisters of humbler origin, who can place their affections wherever they wish without risk of misdirecting a family fortune or making a 'bad match'.

the smile spread over her face like a time-lapse video he had once seen in a high school physics class of a rose in bloom.

She scanned the crowd and when she spotted Sam, the smile spread over her face like a time-lapse video he had once seen in a high school physics class of a rose in bloom.

Throughout American history, the concept of the woman as a protected homebody went hand in hand with the reality that most women—poor women—were expected to work and were not given any special deference because of their sex. By going off to sling rivets or weld airplane wings, middle-class women lost their status and joined the other part of American womanhood that was expected to fend for itself.

Once literature is contrived as the hymn of the nation, the flag of the race, the mouthpiece of a political party or the voice of a class or a group it can be employed as a mighty and all-engulfing tool of propaganda. However, such literature loses what is inherent in literature, ceases to be literature, and becomes a substitute for power and profit.

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

Doug Swieteck,' Mr. Ferris said, 'do you know the basic principle of physical science?' A trick? 'No,' I said, sort of slow. 'The basic principle of physical science is this: no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. Do you understand that?' 'I think so,' I said. 'Do you understand what the principle means?' I shook my head. 'It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

Herodian ruling class. These were the traitors that fornicated with Rome and exploited the Jewish poor. These were the wealthy who bought and paid for the priesthood of Israel, turning the holy into an abomination.

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Time and again the Empress contrasted the Habsburgs' sense of being among the elect with the middle-class virtues of the age of liberalism.

Second we find in our prerevolutionary society definite and indeed very bitter class antagonisms, though these antagonisms seem rather more complicated than the cruder Marxists will allow.

Most of us do not have incomes large enough to provide both the things we need and the things we want. We are forced to choose between our necessities and our luxuries. And, very foolishly, we choose to offer up the luxuries. Thus our existence becomes dull and monotonous. We can hardly be said really to live: our lives are lived for us--cut out and sewed together by the habits and customs of the class to which we belong.