“It lies like a leper in purple, it sits like a dead thing smeared with gold.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
“Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.” — Fiston Mwanza Mujila Copy Share Image
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Mamaw apparently understood what would take me another twenty years to learn: that social class in America isn’t just about money. And” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes. — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a… — David Lindsay-Abaire Copy Share Image
People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
“Relax, my dear,” she whispered. “If you wish to thrive here, you must be open to new ideas.” She drew his hand… — Joseph Moukarzel Copy Share Image
William's marriage to Kate Middleton showed that social class, which seemed so important when Prince Charles was looking for a bride in… — Penny Junor Copy Share Image
“When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“Nor did she believe in identity, certainly not the local nationalistic version of it. She said that man was only smart if… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
“To recall the extent to which Hitchcock was marked by his petit bourgeois interpellation may not radically change the way we read… — Colin McArthur Copy Share Image
Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Liberty yes - but equality for all men? The end of all distinctions of social class? Such thinking smacked of anarchy, and… — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream.” The American dream is not just… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“A French conversation starter is more subtle. Work is considered boring, money is out of the question, politics comes later (and only… — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“So long as discontent and unrest make themselves but dumbly felt within a limited social class, the powers of reaction may often… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve different functions,… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“This principle - that your spouse should be capable of becoming your best friend - is a game changer when you address… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“To whom is an international corporation answerable? Often they do not employ workers. They outsource manufacturing to places far away. If wages… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“The revolutionary movements of the left, which fought for a radical change of social conditions, had never directly touched this supreme political… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“When you have rejected all the accepted social science methods for understanding the way things work, when you can’t talk straight about… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“There are two primary strains in the Conservative Party: grocers, and grandees. … By ‘grandees’ and ‘grocers’, I am not referring to… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“The unhappy priest was breathing hard; sincere horror at the foreseen dispersal of Church property was linked with regret at his having… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): “No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
