“I'm not middle-class; I do not have a degree. I am upper-class without money.” — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
I grew up in a wealthy upper-class household in Jamaica, which was run along militaristic lines by my mother, Gloria. — Lady Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“What was the fun of being upper-class if you had to work so hard to appear bored all the time?” — Troy Soos Copy Share Image
The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people. — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
That the actual practice of meritocracy mostly involves a strenuous quest to avoid any kind of downward mobility, for oneself or for… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“However you want to define these two groups and their approach to giving—rich and poor; educated and uneducated; upper-class and working-class—their members… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“You don’t understand the class structure of American society," said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a question. In the United… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Benefitting from a job bubble is not only a first world problem, it's an upper-class-educated-lucky-to-be-in-the-right-industry-at-the-right-time kind of first world problem. — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that in order to be an addict you must come from a broken home or from the… — Jason Peter Copy Share Image
When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles.… — Ben Chaplin Copy Share Image
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the neighborhood where I grew up, it was a rough neighborhood - well, not rough, but it certainly wasn't upper class… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
Certain kinds of things that the novel used to do, which was, "Oh, I'm living out here in West Nowhere, Nebraska and… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The house seemed almost without smells at all, pleasant or foul, leaving me to wonder if the upper class existed on a… — Ami McKay Copy Share Image
“effort was made to select short pieces, quotes, and art that represent the diversity of trans communities. We have inevitably failed at… — Laura Erickson-Schroth Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who… — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
“In eighteenth-century England, a fad swept the upper class. Several families felt their estate needed a hermit, and advertisements were placed in… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“Just like the myth of the people’s or popular capitalism, which was propagated since the mid1950s in the countries to the west… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
“And you did all of this before I awakened?' 'Not all of us can afford to be layabouts ... You upper class… — Anne Mallory Copy Share Image
“ A Mother’s Advice Manners matter, regardless of your position in society. There is no excuse in this world to practice bad… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands of European peasants… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The automobile, like the all-important domestic façade, is another mechanism for outdoor class display. Or class lack of display we'd have to… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“Snake Street is an area I should avoid. Yet that night I was drawn there as surely as if I had an… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds? — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
We are in the more blessed category, the upper class who lived by faith and believed even though we hadn't seen! — David Berg Copy Share Image
You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead, — Kanye West Copy Share Image
In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut. — Lisa Birnbach Copy Share Image
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