Eoin Colfer Quotes

The House of Commons is full of fat and pompous plutocrats…Public schools are cradles of sickening snobbery.

I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats.

Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He certainly shows no concern for the humanity of people who are already here... I think you have to live in worlds of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and automatic $20 million a year income with no work to have some fantasy this far from reality.

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

I hate caviar. Ugh! The freebase of food!

The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.

Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.

One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.

I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and I teach and I go from university to university. I'm one of the old, but I still go around, but I only see those who are not like that, I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

That's pretty tough talk from a guy who has fewer days at work this year than he has houses.

It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.

For film, you know, the Tarantinos and Nolans of the world who are very focused on a certain kind of film aesthetic and a certain kind of presentation, to be honest, that comes from a place of privilege. It comes from a place of always having access to such, but when you ain't never - you can't see it because you can't even get to it.

Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Only cream and SOBs rise to the top.

My life changed when I was able to not only get seated in nice restaurants, I was given free appetizers. That was like, "Oh, my God, I've arrived".

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.

I don't believe that just because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person is born on the other side means that a lot of people should be getting screwed through no fault of their own.

When once a social order is well established, no matter what injustice it involves, those who occupy a position of advantage are not long in coming to believe that it is the only possible and reasonable order.