Quotes about class
class would-be normal
That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true. Simone de Beauvoir
class daily-mail misery
If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery. Simon Hoggart
class use reluctant
I'm reluctant to use the word class so much. Timothy West
class playwright elizabethan
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
class people want
I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it. Timothy Spall
class white middle
There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white working class and the Democrats, I realized that there's even a lot of disagreement about who the working class IS. Timothy Noah
class leisure transition
The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life. Thorstein Veblen
class aesthetic-beauty growth
The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to supplement the aesthetic beauty, even in those objects which are primarily admired for the beauty that belongs to them as natural growths.
class innovation characteristics
Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form.
class evil darkness
Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
class literature interest
Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
class mind quality
No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.
class two firsts
Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.
classical-music western indian
I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music. Satyajit Ray
class play cities
My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.
class african-american way
You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. Lena Horne
class people ordinary
If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise. Theresa May
class working-class capitalism
Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism. Terry Eagleton
class friendly action
The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.
class justice together
We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. Shirley Chisholm
class clown made
I made a living out of being a class clown Shannon Hoon
class two mind
The class warfare was in the script as well. It establishes what the world is like and what would happen if we really had two zones that were left and everybody had to survive using these two areas. What would our society to do with that set up? I wanted the state of world, in my mind, how it would actually realistically unfold. I drew that from what was in the script. Len Wiseman
class everyday cinema
I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls. Lavrenti Lopes
class race may
Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates". Neil Postman
class age firsts
I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class. Phil Collins
class criminals crime
I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes. Peter O'Toole
class australia kingdoms
It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia. Peter Carey
class years goal
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. If I can match them for 10 years, I'd be in their company. They were class acts. That's what I'd like to be. Pete Sampras
class lessons knows
you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over! Pearl Cleage
class acting ham
I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess. Queen Latifah
class people african-american
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
class style may
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section. Joseph Epstein
class toil lord
Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they spin'. Joseph Chamberlain