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Class is classlessness.

— James Merrill

“I’m afraid my wife picked up a number of, er, colorful expressions from the Yanks and such,” Frank offered, with a nervous smile. “True,”…

— Diana Gabaldon

First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down to reality,…

— William Langland

“But, without preaching, the truth may surely be borne in mind, that the bustle, and triumph, and laughter, and gaiety which Vanity Fair exhibits…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction…

— H. P. Lovecraft

There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a…

— Sid Waddell

“It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation,…

— Charles Dickens

“Don't you know yet, he said, that an idle and selfish class loves to see mischief being made, even if it is made at…

— Joseph Conrad

“What are the fifty newspapers, which those precocious urchins are bawling down the street, and which are kept filed within, what are they but…

— Charles Dickens

We know that the British public are obsessed with class.

— Lady Colin Campbell

Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing, had never…

— Stephen Crane