Quotes About Class

In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.

Tracy thought she must be missing something, it felt like the same world as ever to her. The rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, kids everywhere falling through the cracks. The Victorians would have recognized it. People just watched a lot more TV and found celebrities interesting, that was all that was different.

I take a jazz class and I also take just a regular exercise class with a man who gives me acupressure treatments. It's just stretching and elongating the muscles.

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

A well dressed man is a best accessory a woman can have

Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.

Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: Lou, youre a leading man because youre a good actor. Brought tears to my eyes.

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.

I'm a firm believe that a man looks his best in a suit and I feel like in the late 40's people just dressed up to do everything.

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species

Elegance is always in style for men.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.