Quotes About Betters

Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.

The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

The whole concept of government is corrupt, Mr Turnhouse. It is not for us to judge those who habitually inform us they are our betters.

Let them leave language to their lonely betters Who count some days and long for cer- tain letters; We, too, make noises when we laugh or weep, Words are for those with promises to keep.

smugness is half the fun of being a liberal (the other half being the tearing down of everything one's ancestors, and one's betters generally, worked so hard to build).

And needless to say, smugness is half the fun of being a liberal (the other half being the tearing down of everything one's ancestors, and one's betters generally, worked so hard to build).

Themes don't change very much in story telling, and I think each writer has his or her own territory; however, I think craft and style take a lot of time to develop. I don't think there's any other way to develop your own style without reading your betters.

Masses of men will almost feel that a certain amount of injustice ought to be inflicted on their betters, so as to make things even, and will persuade themselves that a criminal should be declared to be innocent, because the crime committed has had a tendency to oppress the rich and pull down the mighty from their seats.

If men like Boyle think that force is all they need to rob their betters—let them see what happens when one of their betters chooses to resort to force.

All the benefit that a New Yorker gets out of Kansas is no more than what he might get out of Saskatchewan, the Argentine pampas, of Siberia. But New York to a Kansan is not only a place where he may get drunk, look at dirty shows and buy bogus antiques; it is also a place where he may enforce his dunghill ideas upon his betters.

the cosmogony of Genesis is so simple that even a yokel can grasp it. It is set forth in a few phrases. It offers, to an ignorant man, the irresistible reasonableness of the nonsensical. So he accepts it with loud hosannas, and has one more excuse for hating his betters.

Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.

You have an alarming streak of chivalry for a butler. I'd accuse you of aping your betters, but I have met your houseguests.

Don't you have any respect for your betters?" "I do. That's why I'm going to help her up the stairs and put her to bed with a cup of hot tea. You can just sit here and . . . jangle your manacle!

You've got another problem. Like most white trash, you're disrespectful to your betters and proud of your stupidity and ignorance.

People in low life have no such privilege. Necessity, which spares our betters, has no pity on us. We learn to put our feelings back into ourselves, and to jog on with our duties as patiently as may be.

I set down here Mr. Franklin's careless question, and my foolish answer, as a consolation and encouragement to all stupid people — it being, as I have remarked, a great satisfaction to our inferior fellow-creatures to find that their betters are, on occasions, no brighter than they are.

People at the apex felt unbridled contempt for the people who spent their lives laboring to support their "betters" in the style to which they had become accustomed. After all, if those lesser being had mattered, they'd have been the ones making the decisions, right? The fact that they weren't was directly attributable to their inherent inferiority and general stupidity, not the inequality of opportunity.

In a bitter night, a mustard night that was last night, a good thought came and the dark was sweetened when the day sat down. And this thought went from evening star to the late dipper on the edge of the first light -- that our betters spoke of.

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have

I am an impenitent rotter to this day, a malevolent man, exulting in the transgressions of my betters.