Ahead Quote by Linda Johnson Rice

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.

— Noel Coward

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

— Lena Horne

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

A second-class is a first-class mistake.

— William Arthur Ward

Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

— Dwight Morrow

It feels irresponsible to not acknowledge class disparity and pretend it's not real, because then you become a neoliberal elite: 'I'm doing okay now,…

— Ethel Cain

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Think first class about everyone around you, and you'll receive first-class results in return.

— David J. Schwartz

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

— Patricia Hewitt

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

— Zygmunt Bauman

“barometer of success in later life is not that they always win, but how they deal with failure. An ability to pick themselves up…

— Helen Fielding

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class…

— Alexandre Dumas