Quotes About Class

I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25 I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.

I've always gone for the more understated look.

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.

I understood it was a poor area when I was young because you're driving through it and you see these low-income homes that I hadn't really seen before. I'd lived in upper-middle-class neighborhoods before we moved to Athens and The Plains. You understand, but you don't really understand the magnitude until you get older.

If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.

I think that it is too common for white feminists to say, 'We want some diversity. Come join our movement about gender, but we want you to check the class and race at the door.' And you can't undo that braid of race, class, and gender: all three intersect with each other, so it's important for more education to be done about that.

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.

We live in a very unequal society.

The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class.

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

The class system in India is very hard, and it is very unfair.

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

It is the sweat of the servants that make their squire look smart.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives one unceasing round of toil, deprivation and anxiety.

My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.