Quotes About Class

The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

It has been discovered experimentally that you can draw laughter from an audience anywhere in the world, of any class or race, simply by walking on a stage and uttering the words "I am a married man."

The suffering of the rich is among the sweetest pleasures of the poor.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.

Sex - the poor man's polo.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological-resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.

My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts."

Women are the true maintenance class. Society is built upon their acquiescence and upon their small and necessary labours.

Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Youth has become a class.

It is true that from time to time Jews suffered from the fury of an exploited peasantry or their competitors. But from time to time the aristocracy suffered the same fate. Thousands of French aristocrats were slaughtered during peasant uprisings or at the Great Terror of 1793. Many Russian aristocrats were killed or expelled during the October Revolution of 1917. Many of them were innocent, for class warfare can be as cruel as any war.

Jews know hard days like the rest of us. Yes, Jews suffered — it's part of being human... Jews did not suffer more than any other comparable group of people. Jews as a rule belonged to the exploiting classes; that is why the Jewish Quarter is located next to the Royal palaces in Seville and Paris.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. —LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH