Upper Class Quotes

54 quotes by 51 authors

• Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them. — Germaine Greer
• Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among… — Toni Morrison
• Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. — Ayn Rand
• I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people. — Kristin Scott Thomas
• I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want… — Caitlin Moran
• They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty. — Rhys Bowen
• Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast… — Steven Pinker
• 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.… — Oscar Wilde
• In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead… — Oscar Wilde
• I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the… — Spalding Gray
• I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my parents moved to… — Scott Turow
• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture. — Orhan Pamuk
• For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could… — Joel Kinnaman
• Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle… — Ed Miliband

Who Wrote These Upper Class Quotes

51 authors contributed a total of 54 Upper Class Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Upper Class Quotes by Matthew Arnold
• 2 Upper Class Quotes by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Erland Josephson
• 1 Upper Class Quote by David Berg
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Henry Louis Gates
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Kristin Scott Thomas
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Mary McCarthy
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Spalding Gray
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Scott Turow
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Rowan Atkinson
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Orhan Pamuk
• 1 Upper Class Quote by August Strindberg
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Joel Kinnaman
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Michael Parenti
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Ed Miliband
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Richard M. Nixon
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Huey Newton
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Elmer Eric Schattschneider
• 1 Upper Class Quote by A. N. Wilson
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Antonio Gramsci
• 1 Upper Class Quote by James M. Barrie
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Carl I. Hagen
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Nicholas Haslam
• 1 Upper Class Quote by Deirdre Imus