Class Quotes

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An antique is anything old with class. — John Bartlett
I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be… — C.S. Lewis
Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well… — Cynthia Ozick
All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate peoples into a state of poverty,… — Pope Clement VIII
Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Even if God exists, he's done such a terrible job, it's a wonder people don't get together and file a class action suit against him. — Woody Allen
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but… — Mark Twain
There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece. — Dave Barry
The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a… — Aristotle
When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end. — Aristotle
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified… — Edith Wharton
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the… — Charles Dickens
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because… — Gore Vidal
The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated… — Margaret Mead
People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have… — Cleveland Amory
Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public… — Henrik Ibsen
In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that… — Lincoln Steffens
I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to… — Fergie
Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian… — Clara Zetkin

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