Quotes About Class

Men and women of the present day are, to those we might hope to bring into existence, what the pariah dogs of the streets of an Eastern town are to our own highly-bred varieties," Galton predicted.

El modo más eficaz de hacer inofensivos a los pobres es enseñarles a querer imitar a los ricos.

Don Ricardo wanted a successor worthy of himself. Jorge would always be cocooned in the privileges of his class, hiding from his mediocrity in creature comforts. Penelope, the beautiful Penelope, was a woman, and therefore a treasure, not a treasurer. Julian, who had the soul of a poet, and therefore the soul of a murderer, fulfilled all the requirements. It was only a question of time.

Il sistema più efficace per rendere inoffensivi i poveri è insegnare loro a imitare i ricchi.»

He was going to marry a lady of good social standing

Un uomo deve avere qualche vizio, se possibile di classe, altrimenti quando arriva alla vecchiaia non ha nulla da cui redimersi.

Le moyen le plus efficace de rendre les pauvres inoffensifs est de leur apprendre à vouloir imiter les riches.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. That is the poison with which capitalism blinds

You must love teaching', one mother said to Mr. Shevvington. 'Yes indeed. I think of each class as a zoo.' He laughed..'Twenty-six to a cage.

Mrs. Saville had a superb swoop of bosom. It started directly beneath the hollow of her neck and finished just a smidgen above what, if only a hint of indentation had been present, could have passed for her waist.

This Mrs. Emory remembers she phoned the Horton house to talk to her friend about a class reunion.

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

A crash sounded from the exhibition room. OrbaLin spun around to face the smashed doors. "And maybe they never left." The archivist flicked out his wrist and a short lightsaber appeared in his waiting hand, delivered from a secret compartment in his suit. For all his quirks, the archivist had class, but would it be enough to keep them both alive?

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people. Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us. I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person.

Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us.

She had almost certainly poisoned her perfidious former lover, a clerk, so she could marry into her own respectable upper-middle-class milieu without the clerk's revealing their physical intimacy.

I didn't come from a council estate like a lot of the lads do.

Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

All of us kids in the neighbourhood had to go shoeless for the same reason - all except the landlord's son, because his father had more income.

People of Baltimore, if you want to simply learn a new trade, if you want to join the Foundry, it's a membership. It's like joining a gym, and you can go and meet other entrepreneurs like you. You can talk about how to get financing. You can take a class on how to sew. You can take a class and say, 'I want to be an electrician.'

You really don't have to be rich to be sosy. It's just really a mentality and how you want to carry yourself. You enjoy life.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

Oh, I live in London. So, whether I like it or not, I am a member of the metropolitan elite. If I were anywhere else in the country, I'd hate me.