John Wooden Quotes

A Plowman on his knees is higher than a Gentleman on his legs.

I learned early that class is universally admired.

There's an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual's status by measuring his or her proximity to the most influential person in the room. And as the maxim goes, closer is always better.

Class is more important than a game.

Aristocracy is naturally abhorrent to me, and adored equality is my idol.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order.

There is always a human being behind the titles and the status.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

Margaret Thatcher has one great advantage - she is a daughter of the people and looks trim, as the daughter of the people desire to be. Shirley Williams has such an advantage over her because she's a member of the upper-middle class and can achieve the kitchen-sink revolutionary look that one cannot get unless one has been to a really good school.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass.

Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form.

A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society.

But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

To me there is no difference whether president, beggar, or king.

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.

But few prize honour more than money.

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them?