Class Quotes

4175 Class quotes by 2820 unique authors

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel. — Katharine Whitehorn
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class. — George Bernard Shaw
Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can… — Aristotle
Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to? — Walker Percy
I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my… — Walker Percy
Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to… — John Bartholomew Gough
There is no difference in our souls...That is what yoga teaches. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves -- our cultures and classes.… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice. — Mignon McLaughlin
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The… — Thomas Carlyle
We're born into a certain family, nation, class. But if we have no connection whatsoever with the worlds beyond the one we take for granted,… — Elif Safak
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

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