Quotes About Upper And Lower Class

#1. Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

Naum Gabo

#2. I noticed, rich people never toss away their pennies in their driveways, middle-class always chuck them there, and stray dogs lick up what little pennies they find on poverty ground.

Anthony Liccione

#3. Look at the high and the low, all the world over, and it's the same story, - the lower class used up, body, soul and spirit, for the good of the upper.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#4. Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much leisure time to fill

Lisa Kleypas

#5. THE AFRO-AMERICAN HAS BEEN HEIR TO THE MYTHS THAT IT IS BETTER TO BE POOR THAN RICH, LOWER-CLASS RATHER THAN MIDDLE OR UPPER, EASYGOING RATHER THAN INDUSTRIOUS, EXTRAVAGANT RATHER THAN THRIFTY AND ATHLETIC RATHER THAN ACADEMIC.

John Connolly

#6. But the way he looks at me - as if I am his next draw of breath - halts any further protests from my lips.

K. Bromberg

#7. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

Matthew Arnold

#8. There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Judith Martin

#9. The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

George Orwell

#10. Viveca's clients were mostly upper-middle class and lower-upper class.Being of these classes , they're easily offended.

Gillian Flynn

#11. Look at All of them.they always feel that school is like a family. No one is upper or lower class except for few people who never really understood themselves.

Fahmid Hassan Prohor

#12. A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

David Frost

#13. If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

Warren Buffett

#14. Like overzealous religious converts, climbers originally from the lower rungs of society tend to go overboard when they ape the upper class.

Maureen Corrigan

#15. It's hilarious to recognize how completely another person resembles your imperfect self.

Ian McEwan

#16. These people - the employed, the somewhat privileged - are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls.

Howard Zinn

#17. Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.

Michael Parenti

#18. The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

Oscar Wilde

#19. Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

Francesca Annis

#20. Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.

Isocrates

#21. Trend-setters are members of upper classes who adopt the styles of lower classes to differentiate themselves from middle classes, who wouldn't be caught dead in lower-class styles because they're the ones in danger of being mistaken for them.

Steven Pinker

#22. Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar ... Innovation is bad form.

Thorstein Veblen

#23. Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

Matthew Arnold

#24. How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?

M.B. Dallocchio

#25. Most people don't like complexity. They would prefer the world to be simple.

Catherynne M Valente