James Ransone Quotes

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

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.

He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

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

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.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

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

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

We've all got to get away from this idea that the big money's still around.

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

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

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

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

It has often been said, that there is but one rank of men in America… we have no artificial distinctions of men into noblemen and commoners among us, but it ought to be remarked, that superior degrees of industry and capacity, and above all, commerce, have introduced inequality of property among us, and these have introduced natural distinctions of rank in Pennsylvania, as certain and general as the artificial distinctions of men in Europe. This will ever be the case while commerce exists in this country.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.