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 ...

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. - Al Capone I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany. - David Clennon Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy. - Frank Herbert Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into...

Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another. - Isabel Allende We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes. - Franz Boas In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class. - Mark Burnett ...

Don't you have class today? (Kyrian) Boy, I'm a backwoods Cajun, I ain't never got no class, cher. (Nick) (He cleared his throat and dropped the thick Cajun accent.) And no, today's registration. I've got to figure out what I'm taking next semester. (Nick) I have a few things I need you to do today. (Kyrian) And that is different from any other day how? (Nick) Sarcasm, thy name is Nick Gautier. (Kyrian) - Sherrilyn Kenyon It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball. - Jack Buck There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters. - James Burnham ...

Your perception is riveting, Amal," he says in a bored and sarcastic tone, dropping the note down on my desk. "It's comforting to know that there are people in my class who have the maturity and intelligence to make derogatory comments about other people's external appearances." Now what am I supposed to say to that? "What do you have to say for yourself?" Friggin' mind reader. - Randa Abdel Fattah Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - Gracie Allen One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. - Dorothy Allison Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion. - Malcolm Arnold No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young....

Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward. - Abdallah Ii I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends. - King Abdullah Ii The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they're going to turn around and say, 'Hey, we want a bigger say in things.' So, I knew what I was getting into right at the beginning. It's the right thing to do. - King Abdullah Ii You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class. - Cecelia Ahern For what ...

The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship. - Caroline Nichols Churchill I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys. - Faye Dunaway Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting. - Swoosie Kurtz

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant. - John Adams 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 There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements. - William Bligh They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class. - H Rap Brown Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. - George Bernard Shaw The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. - Margaret Cho I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don...

My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it. - Frank Iero The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy. - Richard Lugar

Did you-" Griffin shoves past him and grabs me by the shoulders. "Are you alright?" "Of course. Didn't they tell you?" From the dark look in his normally bright eyes, I'm going to guess no. He twists to look back over his shoulder and practically growls. "They didn't tell me anything. Except that I had to wait out here." "Um, I need to go," Troy says, backing down the steps. "I have class in the morning." "Coward," I taunt. - Tera Lynn Childs She's a skank. He's a player. He's cute but almost OD'd last year, so he's a bad bet. She's a two-faced, lying, cheating witch. That's right, Trina, I'm talking to you," she shouted. "By the way," she added just for me, "Trina cusses, which means cussing is trashy, which means my golden rule is to never cuss. I have class. Unlike Trina, the skank of Birmingham." The last part was, of course, shouted. - Gena Showal...

Don't you have class today? (Kyrian) Boy, I'm a backwoods Cajun, I ain't never got no class, cher. (Nick) (He cleared his throat and dropped the thick Cajun accent.) And no, today's registration. I've got to figure out what I'm taking next semester. (Nick) I have a few things I need you to do today. (Kyrian) And that is different from any other day how? (Nick) Sarcasm, thy name is Nick Gautier. (Kyrian) - Sherrilyn Kenyon Did you-" Griffin shoves past him and grabs me by the shoulders. "Are you alright?" "Of course. Didn't they tell you?" From the dark look in his normally bright eyes, I'm going to guess no. He twists to look back over his shoulder and practically growls. "They didn't tell me anything. Except that I had to wait out here." "Um, I need to go," Troy says, backing down the steps. "I have class in the morning." "Coward," I taunt. - Tera Lynn Childs In our tabulation of ps...

At my ten-year high school reunion, I was voted best looking. Of course, there were two people in my high school, and while I wasn't the best looking, my brother was two years younger and therefore not in my graduating class. - Jarod Kintz You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.' - Abe Lemons I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise. - Jesse Mccartney When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency. - George Tenet I grew up in Michigan, in a very smal...

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. - Jack Adams I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second. - Noel Coward It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job. - Alexandre Dumas My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation. - Laurie Halse Anderson In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. - Robert Benchley You're crazy," said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at school. "They said that about all the great visionaries.". "You know who else they said it about?" Angela demanded. "All the actual crazy people. - Sarah Rees Brennan I gotta say"A...

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. - Cory Booker Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. - Cory Booker There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning. - Warren Buffett The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's ...

At the time we're stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It's not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was. - Stephen King In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months. - Jeff Dunham

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends. - King Abdullah Ii Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant. - John Adams But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. - Samuel Alexander Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. - A R Ammons In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,...