Upper Class Quotes

54 quotes by 51 authors

How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds? — James M. Barrie
Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano. — Nicholas Haslam
Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. — Jeff Koons
The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White… — Ishmael Reed
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
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be… — Joseph Epstein
I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some… — Lucas Neff
We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount… — Stacy Schiff
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the… — Terry Eagleton
I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class. — Stephanie Tubbs Jones
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're… — Peter York
I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and… — Erland Josephson
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are in the more blessed category, the upper class who lived by faith and believed even though we hadn't seen! — David Berg
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. — Matthew Arnold
Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class. — Matthew Arnold
Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles. — Napoleon Bonaparte
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as… — Matthew Arnold
Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class,… — George Bernard Shaw
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted… — Henry Louis Gates

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