Jim Gaffigan Quotes

In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton's class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that.

Fame is protection if you go to a scary place. Fame is fun. A lot of people don't say anything and you don't know they know who you are.

There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.

Only capitalists get photographers.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying.

When you are around people who have money, you realise money isn't that impressive, it's about your class, morals and how you conduct yourself.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell or Shia LaBeouf or Leo DiCaprio. You're a comic.

The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town.

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

In your city faded off the brown, NINO. She insists she got more class, WE KNOW.

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 essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.

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

There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white working class and the Democrats, I realized that there's even a lot of disagreement about who the working class IS.

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.

I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red veiling with Oriental trimming (makes me look like a Gipsy), and another of rose-coloured challis, and a grey street suit, and an every-day dress for classes. That wouldn't be an awfully big wardrobe for Julia Rutledge Pendleton, perhaps, but for Jerusha Abbott - Oh, my!

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

You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear a handkerchief anymore. They wear top hats. They're called Doctor, they're called - Reverend, but they're still - they play the same role today that Uncle Tom played on the plantation.

I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.