quotes about Upper Class
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I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.
-- A. N. Wilson -
What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.
-- Alison Lurie -
We are in the more blessed category, the upper class who lived by faith and believed even though we hadn't seen!
-- David Berg -
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I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking.
-- Enrique Penalosa -
I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.
-- Erland JosephsonSource : "Erland Josephson obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2012.
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How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?
-- James M. Barrie -
In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut.
-- Lisa BirnbachSource : Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing
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Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.
-- Nicholas Haslam -
They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.
-- Rhys BowenSource : Rhys Bowen (2008). “Her Royal Spyness”, p.178, Penguin
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I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly experienced French peasant girls galloping up and down my - hang on.
-- Rowan Atkinson