Judgment Quote by Edmund White

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

— Bill Vaughan

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record…

— Samuel Smiles

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study.…

— Horace Mann

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.

— Eliot Engel

Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital…

— B. C. Forbes

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what…

— Blake Bailey

“The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence only if…

— Friedrich Engels

“But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong…

— George Orwell

It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called…

— Richard Hofstadter

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

— Jarvis Cocker

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

— Jon Meacham

“Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.”

— Deana J. Driver