George Eliot Quotes

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

He that despises his neighbor's happiness because he wears a worsted cap or a leather apron, he that struts immeasurably above the lower size of the people, and pretends to adjust the rights of the men by the distinctions of fortune

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR? Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither.

And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions.

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you. You have a $500 suit on and you're still a lowlife.

There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive empathy as a sign of muddle-headed weakness rather than as a marker of civilization.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

Money doesn't buy class.