The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand. — Noel Coward 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
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“I'm not middle-class; I do not have a degree. I am upper-class without money.” — Leila Aboulela 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
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. — Matthew Arnold 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
“I noticed, rich people never toss away their pennies in their driveways, middle-class always chuck them there, and stray dogs lick up… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I think it was a good and necessary thing that the American upper class diversified, and that more African-Americans and Jews and… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at… — Jack D. Forbes Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of insular, old-fashioned, upper-class Britishness that gives me the spooks. I am sure that comes from a boarding-school… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system… — Francois Gautier Copy Share Image
All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
I want the new upper class to start preaching what it practices. They are getting married and staying married in large numbers.… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
But it's not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Through their donations and work for voluntary organizations, the charitable rich exert enormous influence in society. As philanthropists, they acquire status within… — Teresa Odendahl Copy Share Image
The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
We have a new lower class that's large and growing that has fallen away from a lot of the basic core behaviors… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
“They're both plutocracies, rule by the rich. If they had won, all they'd have thought about was making more money, the upper… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I grew up in a middle to upper-class house with fairly liberal sentiments, but to me it was always very obvious that… — Pieter Hugo Copy Share Image
“Jesus’ ministry was not to the upper class, the educated, the elite or the most influential social figures. Jesus came and ministered… — Chris Heuertz Copy Share Image
“In the United States, France, and most other countries, talk about the virtues of the national meritocratic model is seldom based on… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“Quiet as it's kept, there is a certain type of "upper class" white folks who don't use "colored help" at all. In… — Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor 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
They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty. — Rhys Bowen Copy Share Image
“My, my, aren't we upper class and therefore faultlessly grammatical.” — Sharon Green Copy Share Image
A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class. — David Frost Copy Share Image
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes. — Oscar Wilde 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
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image