42 Quotes About Social-class

Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.

Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.

From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal.

Maybe what she meant was that obviously she wasn't a lady because there was no way she could be. To be ordinary, as if pride were not the first manifestations of shame.

It lies like a leper in purple, it sits like a dead thing smeared with gold.

When Christophe at last made up his mind to go to bed, chilled in body and soul, he heard the window below him shut. And, as he lay, he thought sadly that it is cruel for the poor to dwell on the past, for they have no right to have a past, like the rich: they have no home, no corner of the earth wherein to house their memories: their joys, their sorrows, all their days, are scattered in the wind.

Morals are like social classes, there are poor and rich people.

The main point about civility is...the ability to interact with strangers without holdingtheir strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renouncesome or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place.

Like many who'd married in the war, my parents were finding it hard to survive the peace. This wasn't because they had discovered that they didn't love each other once their life together wasn't spiced with constant separations and the threat of death. Far from it. But they hadn't chosen each other so much against the social grain that they were tense, self-conscious, embattled, as though something was supposed to go wrong. Their families didn't like their marriage, nor did the village.