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... whenever Odette told a stupid story, Swann listened to his wife with a compliance, a gaiety,... More
...the shiny-cheeked merchant bankers from London with eighties striped blue ties and white... More
All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes. More
And even so, he’s stale, he’s been there too long.
Touch him, and you’ll find he’s... More
As this world is at present constituted, what we call the lower part of mankind work for pay, and... More
Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much... More
Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!
Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses! More
But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room. More
But how do the poor minority fare? Perhaps it will be found that just in proportion as some have... More
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production... More
By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the... More
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a... More
Class isn’t something you buy. Look at you. You have a $500 suit on and you’re still a lowlife. More
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the... More
Commoners are weightless. But he was a royal bon vivant who, no matter what, always weighed 125... More
Could Ronnie really have become a sahib? More
Do you think you go well with the color scheme? More
Each class of society has its own requirements; but it may be said that every class teaches the... More
Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its... More
Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, “he was a blockhead ....” BOSWELL. “Will you... More
For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed,... More
For you cannot have gentility without paying for it. More
Have no fellowship with one that is mightier and richer than thyself: for how agree the kettle... More
He suggested that there might be men of genius in the lowest grades of life, however permanently... More
Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century.... The bourgeois and... More
How beastly the bourgeois is
especially the male of the species— More
However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman... More
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a... More
I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me—a bourgeois who adheres to the British... More
I am his Highness’ dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? More
I don’t know what the country’s coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their... More
I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us... More
If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is... More
If the conversation turned to the Princes of the House of France, “people with whom neither you... More
In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every... More
Isn’t it god’s own image? tramping his thirty miles a day
after partridges, or a little... More
Isn’t it true that every aristocrat wants to die? More
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested... More
It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts:... More
I’m a gentleman’s gentleman, and you’re no bloody gentleman. More
I’ve gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground. More
Just as rotten wood cannot be used for pillars, so base people cannot become masters. More
Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets. More
Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank... More
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately,... More
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the... More
Miss Weare attended on Lady Dellwyn as her shadow. And as she had before received a great deal of... More
Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner,... More
No one is India. More
No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow.... More
Oh! what a poor thing is human life in its best enjoyments!—subjected to imaginary evils when... More
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day. More
One marvels why ... the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at... More
Please don’t look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary. More
Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They... More
Since the beginning of time, three-quarters of the mental energy and of the lies inspired by... More
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities... More
Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and... More
Superior people remain kind and just even in poverty, but lowly people who become rich lord it... More
Tell me, Frank. Have you been indulging in what I call Mrs. Weaver’s weakness for social... More
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term... More
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. More
The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember. More
The traveler to the United States will do well ... to prepare himself for the class-consciousness... More
The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the... More
The word of the moment is “classless,” whether applied to Cockney Society photographers or... More
The worst thing about this war is the chance it gives these dreadful little persons, the chance... More
The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the... More
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The... More
There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to... More
They made me take cod liver oil: that is the height of luxury: a medicine to make you hungry... More
Throughout recorded time ... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the... More
Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody else’s house to earn money? You’re working... More
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. More
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. More
When we say a woman is of a certain social class, we really mean her husband or father is. More
While you’re playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a... More
Whiskey! Never tasted such beastly stuff in my life! In a civilized country they drink wine. More
Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money... More
Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards... More
You don’t understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody.... More
You overfed the boy, Ma’am. You raised an artificial spirit in the lad, unbecoming to his... More
You see,I divide men into three categories: those who have a lot of money, those who have none at... More
You will see ... that it is easier to go down the social ladder than to climb it. More
Your church is a whore: she sells her favors to the rich. More
[A toad-eater] is a metaphor taken from a mountebank’s boy who eats toads in order to show his... More
[T]here is no situation so deplorable ... as that of a gentlewoman in real poverty.... Birth,... More
“Be faithful to your roots” is the liberal version of “Stay in your ghetto.” More

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