Quotes About Class

The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy.

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?

I used to be so intimidated by spin classes. I'd always go by and see people on their bikes looking so intense. But one day my sister and I worked up the courage to go in, and now we're hooked!

Spin class is the best for your core!

I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

I've always maintained that there's no such thing as period acting, I think that's a class thing. I don't believe that people moved and spoke much differently than we do now.

Every time a government minister or spokesman lauds Magna Carta, let us boo or hiss. Shame them. And let us celebrate what it really means to our history: the ability of an emerging class to make demands against the state for new liberties and rights.

The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.

The best accessory for a woman - handsome man!

To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit.

The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.