Phyllis Bottome Quotes

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

I am a capitalist—a rich businessman and most of you are not.

The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.

For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.

I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

In the eighties, we had the ladies who lunch, the power lunch - everything was power. At the beginning of the nineties, things changed.

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.

Money doesn't buy class.

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

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.

Aristocracy is naturally abhorrent to me, and adored equality is my idol.