Quotes About Class

You lose your manners when you are poor.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.

At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.

I don't think anyone could be the next Dick Vitale. I mean that in a good way. More than an announcer, Dick is an ambassador for the game. Dick is in class by himself. Like what he does or not, what he has done to expand the popularity of college basketball is phenomenal.

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

We forgot that Martin Luther King, Jr. changed his discourse toward the end of his life because he understood that the real fundamental problem of this country was not just race, it was class. It was the economical situation of not only poor blacks but also the poor white part of the population and everything in between.

There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

People in L.A. think I'm so posh. They think I live in 'Downton Abbey.'

I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.

I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.

When people accuse me of being really posh, I think, 'Hang on a minute - no, I'm not!'

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

I don't think I met anyone posh until I went to London.

I can do posh.

I don't think old posh is as intimidating as new posh, is it?

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

Nobody knows it, but I would be considered posh in Ireland.

I certainly never saw myself as posh.

I am not posh. I went to a comprehensive school.

If I keep doing films like 'The Riot Club' they're going to think I'm a posh git.

Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money.