Quotes About Class

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

In his novels from beginning to end, Dickens is making the same point always: that to the English governing classes the people they govern are not real.

During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power...

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture...have simply made us all members of one class.

Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off, and as I read this letter I am afraid that for a moment I was capable of wishing the same thing concerning the laboring class of America.

The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being synonymous with civilization and its cultivation as coming from its natural abilities and not from its wealth and privileged opportunities. It doesn't see that the way in which it monopolizes these things distorts the culture it derives from them and that this makes its culture irrational and an enemy of civilization.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

It's the same the whole world over,It's the poor wot gets the blame,It's the rich wot gets the pleasure,Ain't it all a bloomin' shame?

There's nothing surer,The rich get rich and the poor get poorer,In the meantime, in between time,Ain't we got fun.

The poor are poor because the rich are rich.

It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class.

Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class. The other classes decay and finally disappear in the race of modern industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product.

what thoughtful rich people call the problem of poverty, thoughtful poor people call with equal justice a problem of riches.

Mr. Evans beamed. "Could I get you a drink?" he said. The words were ordinary; the phrase was one that Maureen had heard and often welcomed at endless dozens of parties. But Mr. Evans managed to invest it with such a delightful Edwardian gallantry that you almost thought he had said, "May I bring an ice to you in the conservatory?

The only french sentence he could call to mind was a passage which had caused him some trouble in class the previous day. So far as he had been able to judge the translation was: 'the gentleman who wears one green hat approaches himself all of a sudden.

Any kind of discourse which has a flavour of the British ruling class, so powerful is ancestral memory, must be strenuously avoided.

They want the working classes, laborers. Boys who aren't stamped by"—Herr Siedler frowns—"middle-class garbage. The cinemas and so forth. They want industrious boys. Exceptional boys." "Yes, sir.

Rome's ancient ruling class was decimated, and surviving nobiles were scattered to all corners of the empire

One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.

Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.

We don't have drama in public schools in France. I had never taking an acting class.

I think it goes back to whether or not race and class - that is, race and poverty - is not becoming even more of a constraint. Because with the failing public schools, I worry that the way that my grandparents got out of poverty, the way that my parents became educated, is just not going to be there for a whole bunch of kids.

The most confident people in Britain are those who went to top public schools and Trotskyists.