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Upper Class Quotes

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

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
- Charlotte Curtis

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.
- Christopher Eccleston

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

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
- Germaine Greer

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones

The house seemed almost without smells at all, pleasant or foul, leaving me to wonder if the upper class existed on a different sort of air from the rest of the world, a breeze piped into their homes from above the clouds, so clean you had to pay for it.
- Ami Mckay

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
- Ed Miliband

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
- Toni Morrison

Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians.
- Steven Pinker

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
- Ayn Rand

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
- George Sanders

It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.
- John Sergeant Wise

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