Quotes About Class

One of these photos stuck in my mind—that of elegant upper-class Parisians returning to the French capital after their armies had crushed the Paris Commune during Bloody Week (May 21–28, 1871). They applauded the terror organized by the French state, which had crushed Parisians aspiring to freedom.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble

the kind of place that thrived on understatement and quiet privilege.

She might have received more formal training than he had, might have more breeding and etiquette, but right here, right now, he would have outclassed her. Meilin desperately wished he could be alongside her. It

His knock apparently startled the scullery maid, but a good suit and a sober-headed cane opened many a door, including this one. And if she seemed inclined to shut it in his face again quite promptly, a silver shilling slipped into her hand with his visiting card corrected the matter.

What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly. 'Reverence,' he replied.

I have never fully understood the whole class business in America, though, because I came from the very bottom of it, and when that happens it never really leaves you. I mean I have never really gotten over it, my beginnings, the poverty, I guess is what I mean.

the purpose of all these rules and regulations was to end what Plato saw as the worst aspect of normal Greek politics: the bitter class conflict and clashes among competing factions. In the average Greek city, rich and poor were literally out for each other's blood

Not everyone, however, bought the formula. Traditional Platonists found themselves like MIT graduates being confronted by people who claim to have learned plasma physics taking an Internet class over the summer. They were furious about what was happening and fought back hard.

Like Charles Murray in The Bell Curve, Wells foresees a future divided between a permanent underclass and a "cognitive elite.

Heus, kuisheid is alleen iets voor de laagste klasse. [...] Ik ben nog nooit aan een hof geweest waar ze met de kuisheid erg nauw waren.

Cuando veo todas esas camisas negras, pardas, rojas o azules, exigiendo que te afilies a esto o aquello, pienso que antes el mundo era de los ricos y ahora va a ser de los resentidos.

De qué revolución me habla. Ésa se disuelve en traiciones y mentiras. Los ricos son los de antes; y los pobres, también. Se lo dice a usté uno que la hizo.

AL BURGUÉS Y AL BORBÓN, PÓLVORA Y PERDIGÓN

Sobre las elecciones presidenciales dijo algo divertido, que luego pidió no reprodujera en mi artículo: que confiar a trece millones de indios analfabetos la elección de un presidente es como pedir a una clase de escolares que elijan a su profesor.

Lo otro fue que hay quien piensa, equivocadamente, que la revolución consiste en que muchos que no saben leer ni escribir se adueñen de las propiedades de los pocos que sí saben leer y escribir.

A gentleman does not openly work for pay, does he?

History has shown me that as long as some white middle-class people can live high on the hog, take vacations to Europe, send their children to private schools, and reap the benefits of their white skin privileges, then they are "liberals." But when times get hard and money gets tight, they pull off that liberal mask and you think you're talking to Adolf Hitler. They feel sorry for the so-called underprivileged just as long as they can maintain their own privileges.

Anytime you're talking about a ladder, you're talking about a top and a bottom, an upper class and a lower class, a rich class and a poor class. As long as you've got a system with a top and a bottom, Black people are always going to wind up at the bottom, because we are the easiest to discriminate against. That's why i couldn't see fighting within the system.

My father was a nobleman when he spoke his mother tongue, and a worker from the lowest class when he went over into French. Except

She used to be a schoolteacher, but she has no class now.

You can't go wrong with an elegant, sophisticated and timeless designer bag.

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.