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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture. -- Orhan Pamuk
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
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s). -- Peter York
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. -- Ayn Rand
In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut. -- Lisa Birnbach
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people. -- Holly Near
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. -- Matthew Arnold
I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form. -- Thorstein Veblen
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them. -- Germaine Greer
There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio. -- Geoff Rickly
The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system. -- George Orwell
I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative. -- Alfred Kazin
I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early. -- Francois Gautier
If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to. -- Michael Caine
In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. -- Oscar Wilde
People in the upper classes can just as easily be indifferent to their own body, or treat themselves as badly, as people who don't have the money. There are always differences among differences. -- Lynne Tillman
Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself. -- Joseph Campbell
The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary. -- Jilly Cooper
A lot of people think that in order to be an addict you must come from a broken home or from the other side of the tracks. Both of those excuses couldn't be farther from the truth. I come from a family that has a lot of love for one another and I was raised in a middle to upper class neighborhood. -- Jason Peter
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
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. -- Oscar Wilde
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Everything is always grungy in England, no? It's like a little shibboleth of the upper class, wearing something out of your grandfather's trunk. -- Leon Max
For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit. -- Joel Kinnaman
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
I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that. -- Nick McDonell
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 Josephson
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
I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my parents moved to Winnetka, Illinois, an upper class, WASPy suburb where Jews - as well as Blacks and Catholics - were unwelcome on many blocks. I suffered the spiritual equivalent of whiplash. -- Scott Turow
The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class. -- Sloan Wilson
I would love to see no more ghettos, but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight! An upper class, more educated person - they find a diplomatic way to tell you the thing. I love it when you just come heart to heart. That's the way I knew it coming up, so that's the way I like it. -- Jimmy Cliff
Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is. -- Phyllis Logan
My, my, aren't we upper class and therefore faultlessly grammatical. -- Sharon Green
I would say I came from upper middle class family. -- Bob Newhart
'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is. -- Phyllis Logan
Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. -- Jeff Koons
I'm just a regular upper-middle-class guy who happens to be a billionaire. -- David Tepper
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. -- Michael Parenti
Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be? -- Francesca Annis
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. -- Judith Martin
Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions. -- Ludwig von Mises
The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent. -- Elmer Eric Schattschneider
If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class. -- Lady Violet
You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead, -- Kanye West
I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear. -- Kinky Friedman
To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman. -- Mary Brave Bird
Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class. -- Gaspar Noe
In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists. -- Whittaker Chambers
Benefitting from a job bubble is not only a first world problem, it's an upper-class-educated-lucky-to-be-in-the-right-industry-at-the-right-time kind of first world problem. -- Sarah Lacy
We are in the more blessed category, the upper class who lived by faith and believed even though we hadn't seen! -- David Berg
A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class. -- David Frost
What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass -- August Strindberg
Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A. -- Nick Kroll
In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world. -- Angela Ahrendts
Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they've already decided they want to become. -- William Deresiewicz
Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class. -- Matthew Arnold
I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class. -- Joel Kinnaman
For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. -- Patrick J. Kennedy
...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones -- Carleton S. Coon
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class. -- Charles Dickens
All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor. -- Christina Stead
Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad. -- David Denby
My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way. -- Peter Jurasik
We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban home with a color TV.' -- John Fire Lame Deer
Politics in Bolivia must combine social consciousness with professional competency. In my administration, intellectuals from the upper class can be cabinet ministers or ambassadors, as can members of Indian ethnic groups. -- Evo Morales
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class. -- Matthew Arnold
I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a varient for of upper-class politics & self-privileging. -- Jack D. Forbes

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