#upper class

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 #come #decisive #defeat #may

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

#classes #everybody #everything #gets #granted

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

#accent #because #cage #clash #class

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

#enabled #plain #private #reason #school system

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

— Germaine Greer

#always #charming #classes #died #evolution

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

#class #complicated #got #i #i think

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

— Ayn Rand

#classes #future #middle #middle class #nation

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

#bush #care #class #george #george bush

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

— Charlotte Curtis

#coast #east #edith #henry #henry james

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom. ↗

— George Sanders

#called #class #most #people #suffer