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
So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human. — Justin Cartwright 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
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I am from Michigan; I am from Grosse Pointe. I was upper class growing up there. — John 5 Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class. — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano. — Nicholas Haslam 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
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
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
Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We spend to pretend that we’re upper-class. And when the dust clears—when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My Dad taught me that the English upper class are sent to school to be taught to be confident, whereas in Glasgow… — Rankin 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 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
And that's where I think vulnerability comes in - the fact that we're figuring out that there is strength in actually being… — Rege-Jean Page 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“Eating organs, in 1943, could degrade one’s social standing. Americans preferred bland preparations of muscle meat partly because for as long as… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
When the Democrats are attacked for [inciting class warfare] they shrink back. They don't say what obviously should be said, "Yes, there… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford. — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
There were a lot of upper-class or royal roles and I felt like I was always searching for other stuff. — Harris Dickinson Copy Share Image
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people. — Holly Near Copy Share Image
If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class. — Lady Violet Copy Share Image
“My, my, aren't we upper class and therefore faultlessly grammatical.” — Sharon Green Copy Share Image