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Quotes About Class

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Only poor men get hanged.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man always looks good in a dark suit.
~ Greg Kinnear
The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.
~ Lord Chesterfield
A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.
~ Mark Twain
The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
He's a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you're not a middle-class American.
~ Mitt Romney
Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man of refined taste and judgment.
~ Horace
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.
~ John Lydon
I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually.
~ Serena Williams
In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'
~ Cynthia Nixon
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
~ Voltaire
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
~ W. C. Fields
Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money.
~ Christian Dior
It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.
~ Coco Chanel
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
~ George Bernard Shaw
He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.
~ Tommy Douglas
Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.
~ Mel Torme
I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
~ Karl Marx
Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.
~ Karl Marx
Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.
~ Spike Milligan