Quotes about Class

I'm a warrior for the middle class.

I listened again for a voice. But there was no voice tonight, just my obedience. No professional carpenters, just willing bodies. No last-minute detours off the interstate, just eight seats reserved in economy class.

The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.

Definition of the upper crust: A bunch of crumbs held together by dough.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.