Upper Crust Sayings

#1. These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

James F. Cooper

#2. Were we all, the whole upper crust of Russian society, so totally insensitive, so horribly obtuse, as not to feel that the charmed life that we were leading was in itself an injustice and hence could not possibly last?

Nicolas Nabokov

#3. You study any pretty democracy, from the ancient Greeks forward, and you'll see that the only way each system functions is with a working class of slaves. Peons to haul the garbage so the upper crust can campaign and vote.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

David Mitchell

#5. between a full-time job, law school, hours of reading cases, and study groups, I barely have time to sleep, much less date. Which is why I gave them up. "Which floor?" His upper crust Brit accent curls around my spine, making mush out of me. "Uh,

Magda Alexander

#6. Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.

Caleb Carr

#7. My weekends are spent hidden in the woods, and then I have to come back and pretend to be this very upper-crust insurance investigator. But, I mean, duality's nice. You never get bored. You can't say the grass is always greener if you're in both backyards.

Hilarie Burton

#8. How much of the audience's fun was sacrificed in the effort to redefine the social parameters of the concert hall - it sounds almost masochistic of the upper crust, curtailing their own liveliness, but I guess they had their priorities. Although the quietest

David Byrne

#9. Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.

Nancy Kress

#10. In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

Gloria Estefan

#11. In her opinion, the upper crust was nothing but a bunch of crumbs held together by dough.

J.A. Jernay

#12. George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. member of the upper crust. He's a working class bloke, born with a tin spoon in his mouth. In our

Magda Alexander

#14. Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
Young ladies from the upper crust.

Roald Dahl

#15. And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.

Ben Jonson

#16. When I was little, my father used to sell guns and ammo at a sporting goods store, but I always told everyone he was an arms dealer, because it sounded more exciting.

Jenny Lawson

#17. Onward we climb. The upper slope is a crust of friable lava. It crunches like peanut brittle beneath our steps.

David Quammen

#18. The gospel makes us strange, but the gospel doesn't make us actually crazy. In

Russell D. Moore

#19. Let me have a draught of undiluted morning air. Morning air! If men will not drink of this at the fountainhead of the day, why, then, we must even bottle up some and sell it in the shops, for the benefit of those who have lost their subscription ticket to morning time in this world.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. So you stay, you don't tell anyone, is that it?"
"Sure," Della Lee said easily.
"That's blackmail."
"Add it to my list of sins."
"I don't think there's room left on that list," Josey said as she took a dress from its hanger. Then she closed the closet door on Della Lee.

Sarah Addison Allen

#21. I tied a crust of bread to my belt, and with Carlo set out for the upper slopes of the Pilot Peak Ridge, and had a good day, notwithstanding the care of seeking the silly runaways.

John Muir