Middle Class Quotes

621 Middle Class quotes by 431 unique authors

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class. — Cecelia Ahern
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… — Oscar Wilde
They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were… — Charlaine Harris
The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the… — Arundhati Roy
If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably… — Joe Bageant
I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in… — Jack Kerouac
colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of… — Jack Kerouac
The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that… — Michael Lewis
They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating… — Tennessee Williams
The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending. — Tim Ferriss
Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the… — Naomi Klein
Stuff Happens.â€™ Thatâ€™s the G-rated version. Thatâ€™s a bumper sticker that only a straight white upper middle class male could have made. Because anyone who… — Tim Wise
He had a carrying, congressional sort of voice, the kind that sounded good saying things like Less of a tax burden on the middle class… — Maggie Stiefvater
Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not.… — Matt Haig
I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Now let me be clear; millions of women around the world nurse their children beautifully for years without giving anybody else a hard time about… — Tina Fey
I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an… — Jeanette Winterson
The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for… — Ahmed Toufiq

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