Quotes About Class

They don't think much o'laughter, the rich,' Clarrie observed. 'Nor the powerful, for that matter. When did a teacher ever encourage her class to laugh? When a maid giggles, chances are she'll get give the order of the boot. And do you know why? Laughter puts folk down, that's why. It makes the pompous look foolish and the proud trip and fall.

You can take the white out of the white trash but you can't take the white trash out of the white.

Poor white trash quoting de Maistre and Carlyle and fancying themselves elite while they scrabbled to survive in a world where they were outstripped economically by the Chinese and intellectually by their own phones.

Racial ideology was the inevitable product of the persistence of differences of rank, class and peoples in a society that had accepted the concept of equality.

poor people will cheerfully give you their money. Rich people will give you advice.

The very rich are getting richer and all the others are going broke. The big holders are not shrewd or ruthless or enterprising. They don't have to say or think anything. All they have to do is sit and the money comes pouring in. You have to get up with the Big Holders or drop out and take any job they hand you.

for she belonged to that class of human beings of whom spiritual activity is demanded

I try to avoid confrontations with white trash, but sometimes they don't give you no selection.

with the very long-term political class.

Never in England were there so many gentlemen and so little gentleness.

The rules only applied to people who couldn't afford different rules.

Inwardly - nobody knows why - the passengers on one train always envy slightly the passengers on another train; it is something that's true but a little difficult to explain. Maybe it's because, even though they don't realize it very clearly, a third-class passenger would always be glad to change places with another, even if the other were third-class too. ? Camilo José Cela, Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside

There is no horizontal Stratification of society in this country like the rocks in the earth, that hold one class down below forevermore, and let another come to the surface to stay there forever. Our Stratification is like the ocean, where every individual drop is free to move, and where from the sternest depths of the mighty deep any drop may come up to glitter on the highest wave that rolls. JAMES A. GARFIELD

students in jeans and duffel coats to people in evening wear. Hot dog stands made no class distinctions

When Curzon was rash enough to say that 'all civilisation has been the work of aristocracies', Churchill retorted, 'The upkeep of aristocracies has been the hard work of all civilisations

F]ashion — i.e., the latest, fashion — in all these things (social forms, apparel, aesthetic judgment etc.) affects only the upper class. Just as soon as the lower classes begin to copy their style, thereby crossing the line of demarcation the upper classes have drawn and destroying the uniformity of their coherence, the upper classes turn away from this style and adopt a new one, which in its turn differentiates them from the masses; and thus the game goes merrily on.

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

Any man who can spend a million a year and have nothing to show for it, don't need a recommendation from anybody. He's in a class by himself, and it's a business that no one else can give him a pointer about.

Query 1. Whether there ever was, is, or will be, an industrious nation poor, or an idle rich?

As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

I'm one of the undeserving poor.