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Class Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
- Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent…
- Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments
- Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over…
- Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think…
- The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
- It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
- To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain…
- It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I…
- I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You…
- I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.…
- In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead…
- The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
- Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the…
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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- 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