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'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is. -- Phyllis Logan
White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people. -- Holly Near
I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
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
I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation. -- Beyonce Knowles
The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down. -- Tracey Ullman
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere. -- Terry Eagleton
I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really. -- Spalding Gray
We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of scholarship in the last 30 years about education in the Hellenistic world and women in the Hellenistic world. We now know how an upper-class woman was educated in her day. -- Stacy Schiff
When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from. -- Ben Chaplin
I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently. -- Lucas Neff
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are. -- Henry Louis Gates
In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future. -- Deepak Chopra
My, my, aren't we upper class and therefore faultlessly grammatical. -- Sharon Green
Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is. -- Phyllis Logan
I would say I came from upper middle class family. -- Bob Newhart
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
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
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. -- Matthew Arnold
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. -- Michael Parenti
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. -- Judith Martin
Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be? -- Francesca Annis
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
In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists. -- Whittaker Chambers
Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class. -- Gaspar Noe
To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman. -- Mary Brave Bird
I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear. -- Kinky Friedman
You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead, -- Kanye West
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
Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form. -- Thorstein Veblen
We are in the more blessed category, the upper class who lived by faith and believed even though we hadn't seen! -- David Berg
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture. -- Orhan Pamuk
A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class. -- David Frost
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
What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass -- August Strindberg
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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

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