Quotes About Class

McKisco's contacts with the princely classes in America had impressed upon him their uncertain and fumbling snobbery, their delight in ignorance and their deliberate rudeness, all lifted from the English with no regard paid to factors that make English philistinism and rudeness purposeful, and applied in a land where a little knowledge and civility buy more than they do anywhere else - an attitude which reached its apogee in the Harvard manner of about 1900.

Hay una cosa segura, más segura que ninguna: los ricos hacen dinero y los pobres hacen… niños

Sometimes when you're around I've been tempted to kiss you suddenly and tell you that you were just an idealistic boy with a lot of caste nonsense in his head.

Una cosa es segura, y nada lo es más: los ricos crían riqueza, y los pobres crían... hijos.

He differed from the healthy type that was essentially middle class—he never seemed to perspire. Some people couldn't be familiar with a chauffeur without having it returned;

In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress. Her hand, which dangles over the side, sparkles cold with jewels. Gravely the men turn in at a house - the wrong house. But no one knows the woman's name, and no one cares.

The rich get richer and the poor get—children.

Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out.

You always look so cool, she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

El sentido fundamental de la buena educación es inequitativamente repartido al nacer.

One thing's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get—children.

It occurred to him that all strongly accentuated classes, such as the military, divided men into two kinds: their own kind—and those without.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

You two start on home, Daisy,' said Tom. 'In Mr Gatsby's car.' She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn. 'Go on. He won't annoy you. I think he realises that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.

wherever people played polo and were rich together.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry

Amerikal?lar?n ara s?ra toprak kölesi olmay? istedikleri olur, ama köylü s?n?f?ndan olmaya kar?? hep direnmiÅŸlerdir.

To Toot One's Own Horn Is Unattractive.

Remember, Sookie, nothing says more about a family than good silver and real pearls. The rest is just fluff.

Maggie was the only person she knew with genuine class. "Damn it to hell!" she yelled to the cats. "What ever happened to people behaving like ladies and gentlemen?" The cats had no clue, and got up and left the room. As she sat

she had taught a class in oral history at the community college, and Elner Shimfissle had attended with her friend Irene Goodnight.

Don't you have a pair of pearls?

Ah, che errore doloroso e crasso quel distinguo che i rivoluzionari fanno tra borghesia e popolo, tra aristocrazia e popolo o tra governanti e governati. La vera distinzione risiede tra adattati e disadattati: il resto e letteratura e per di più cattiva letteratura. 176 [1929]