Class Quote by Bill Vaughan

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

— J. K. Rowling

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

— Edmund White

“The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence only if…

— Friedrich Engels

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

— Karl Lagerfeld

“The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive…

— Ellen Cushing

“But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong…

— George Orwell

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more…

— Flannery O'Connor

“there’s no such thing as middle-class. The middle class does not exist. If you believe you are part of the middle class, it just…

— Chuck Klosterman

I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me.

— Anita Brookner

The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.

— Grayson Perry

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

— Timothy Noah

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what…

— Blake Bailey