George Curzon Quotes

I don't like class distinction, and there is far too much of that in England.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

We cannot put into the Constitution, owing to existing prejudices and existing institutions, an entire exclusion of all class distinctions.

On the battlefield, there is no distinction between upper and lower class.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

Each class of society has its own requirements; but it may be said that every class teaches the one immediately below it; and if the highest class be ignorant, uneducated, loving display, luxuriousness, and idle, the same spirit will prevail in humbler life.

We in England, divide our people commonly into four sorts, as gentlemen, citizens or burgesses, yeomen, and artificers or labourers.

Choose equality …. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect … of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

We live in a very classist society, and it's sad and depressing.

'High Cotton' is more conscious of class than 'Black Deutschland.'

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

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.

I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.