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Quotes About Upper

trust me, there is nothing sadder than a vampire with a removable upper plate and a subscription to Modern Maturity.
~ Barbara Bretton
It's my belief, Kit, the woman's touched in her upper works.' 'No, she is merely addicted to poetry,' explained Kitty.
~ Georgette Heyer
My, my, aren't we upper class and therefore faultlessly grammatical.
~ Sharon Green
and my wife beaming down from the upper gallery in her sleeveless dress (that was when the cult of Michelle's arms truly took off), waving
~ Barack Obama
In the earlier centuries the upper and lower social classes engaged in homicide at comparable rates. But as the homicide rate fell, it dropped far more precipitously among the upper classes than among the lower ones, an important social change
~ Steven Pinker
When you're in that upper echelon in wrestling, any movie you take is gonna be a pay cut. If you're gone for three months and they pay you 150 grand, you're getting killed.
~ Kevin Nash
And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.
~ Simon Armitage
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
~ Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
there are more fools than wise men in all societies, and the larger party always gains the upper hand
~ Francois Rabelais
without any actual aristocracy in America, the best those who wanted to be upper class could do was create systems of exclusivity and codes of conduct.
~ Stephanie Clifford
Tiny white flowers sprinkled the upper part of the gown like glimpses of stars at dusk, while the gathered waist and skirt darkened into solid twilight.
~ Suzanne Enoch
She liked to consider herself a part of Elendel upper society, and she kind of was. In the same way that the blocks of granite that made up the steps to the governor's mansion were a part of civic government.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Behind the upper and lower front row are four to five additional rows of replacement teeth, folded back into the gum line like a conveyor belt. Composed
~ Steve Alten
Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.
~ Paul Keating
The people who lived along the Nile were called Egyptians. Early in Egypt's history, there were two Egyptian tribes who lived along the Nile. The Egyptians who lived in the north, in the Nile Delta, were called the "Lower Egyptians." The Egyptians who lived along the straight part of the river, further south, were called the "Upper Egyptians.
~ Susan Wise Bauer
Most of the upper management of I.S. were undead. I always thought it was because the job was easier if you didn't have a soul.
~ Kim Harrison
Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much leisure time to fill
~ kleypas
The sorry plight of the upper class is something that is all too often ignored in the defence of the British monarchy.
~ J.M.R. Higgs
To decent Avernus is easy; the gate of Pluto stands open night and day; but to retrace ones's steps and return to the upper air, that is the toil, that is the difficulty.
~ Virgil
The upper chamber contained a quantity of sand trickling into the lower
~ Laurence Bergreen
Mrs. Rouncewell holds this opinion because she considers that a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost. She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes, a genteel distinction to which the common people have no claim.
~ Charles Dickens
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
~ Judith Martin
Natasha's dance is one such opening. At its heart is an encounter between two entirely different worlds: the European culture of the upper classes and the Russian culture of the peasantry.
~ Orlando Figes
She felt almost upper class; and at the same time a resentment against the ruling class smouldered in her. The masters!
~ D.H. Lawrence