Quotes About Class

What we object to is the division of society into two classes, of which one class owns the capital, and the other performs the labor.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

Just because a person has a title doesn't make him an aristocrat. Some people are great aristocrats who have no other title than the one that nature has bestowed on them, and others like us, who have nothing but titles, are closer to being pariahs than aristocrats.

The clash between rich and poor is a hackneyed enough subject, but I am now convinced that it really is one of the eternal themes of drama.

Incluso ahora pienso que los enfrentamientos entre pobres y ricos es un tema de parece caduco, pero que siempre formará parte de las tragedias

Some people are great aristocrats who have no other title than the one that nature has bestowed on them, and others like us, who have nothing but titles, are closer to being pariahs than aristocrats.

In England Ö education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Societies decline when the upper classes emulate the lower classes.

Communism is a hatred of the poor for the rich—not simply an envy.

There can be no doubt of this: All America is divided into two classes,- the quality and the equality.

Cats as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by that fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods.

Nunca una clase conservadora, por simple odio a quien no la trituraba pudiendo hacerlo, ansió tanto la caída de un hombre».

In 1895 Lady Londonberry commented acidly on a bridegroom who had 'married the 10,000 a year as well as the lady.

As good heirs of the Bible, we think that a great misfortune necessarily follows a great infraction. In this respect the intellectual caste, in our world, is the penitential class par excellence, continuing the role of the clergy under the Old Regime. We have to call its members what they are: officials of original sin.

le vrai bourgeois, de nos jours, est celui qui méprise sa propre classe, joue au rebelle et tire gloire de s'autodéprécier en permanence. La

Aristocracy was linked to a nobility of mind, a purity of spirit, as well as inexhaustible courage.

Actually, I've never read de Troyes." Probably the most famous of the medieval authors of Arthurian tales. "I took a class in German medieval lit and de Troyes was French." He shrugged…

You don't understand," Mairelon said dully. "Kim doesn't want to marry a toff." Was that what was bothering him? "Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nod cocks!" Kim said with as much indignation as she could muster. "I was talking about the marquis, not about you!" Mairelon's eyes kindled. "Then you would?" "You've whiddled it," Kim informed him.