Leisured Class Quotes

#1. It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.

William Butler Yeats

#2. I'm sufficient of a doctrinaire to believe that the novel is the product of a leisured class. Actually.

Angela Carter

#3. Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.

Richard Branson

#4. Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

Florence Nightingale

#5. Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.

Thomas Merton

#6. Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. Was a glimpse of his cock worth a Mercedes?

Edmund White

#8. I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which believe me is enough to convince you that Samuel Beckett was right about everything.

Lev Grossman

#9. Secular folks have no opinion about God's existence; they're busy with other matters. But a secular mystic would say, "The question is not 'Does God exist?' It's rather, 'What do we mean by 'God?

Victoria Zackheim

#10. In '85, I went through rehab and I wasn't ready. If you're not ready, you're not ready. You don't want to hear the truth, and you're gonna keep doing what you keep doing.

Nikki Sixx

#11. I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.

Janice Dickinson

#12. I've been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don't understand what the hell is going on. I've no desire at all to go back there.

Ben Whishaw

#13. Love was a hundred times worse than all the stupid songs could ever try to explain. And when he loved you back, it was too much. Like all of those feelings could never fit. You'd have to spend your life trying to figure out how, but it wouldn't matter as long as he kept looking at you like that.

K.A. Mitchell

#14. By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.

Aeschylus

#15. Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped and bundled in bulk, in different flavors for different tastes.

Willis Regier

#16. What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#17. Losing your job makes you come face to face with the greatest wealth

Sunday Adelaja