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Class Quotes by Lionel Trilling
- There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
- It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being too special and…
- The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see…
- A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That…
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some… — Alfred Austin
- I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good… — Diane Ackerman
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd
- Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. — Robert Baden-Powell