Quotes about Class
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
— GK Chesterton
Be well dressed, behave like a gentleman, and keep your shoes shined.
— Joseph Abboud
Did it ever occur to you that I have a life to live - in my spare time? The Soviet State recognizes no life but that of a social class.
— Ayn Rand
They said it was to be a revolutionary house, free of class struggle, no servants' rooms because they didn't believe in laundry maids or cooks. Nobody does, really. Why should they? Only in having clean clothes, clean floors, and enchiladas tapatias.
— Barbara Kingsolver
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
— Helen Keller
To come down to my own experience, my companion and I, for I sometimes have a companion, take pleasure in fancying ourselves knights of a new, or rather an old, order—not Equestrians or Chevaliers, not Ritters or Riders, but Walkers, a still more ancient and honorable class, I trust.
— Henry David Thoreau
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids
— Aristotle
Be classy. Anything but trashy.
— Coco Chanel
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
— George Bernard Shaw
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TVAnd you think you're so clever and classless and freeBut you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see.
— John Lennon
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
— John Lennon
Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.
— Ayn Rand