Tim Gunn Quotes

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

I come from blue collar. I'm very working class.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Money doesn't buy class.

The one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

Chivalry only worked with men of the same class.

I learned early that class is universally admired.

I come from a blue collar background.

People often think of America as a classless society, but, of course, that isn't true. Within immigrant communities, there's an enormous distinction of class, depending on who your parents are, and that kind of thing comes out really quick in things like marriage and interpersonal relationships.

A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few reliable measures of class in the sense that rich people plan for generations forward and poor people plan for Saturday night, and by that measure, women have been lower class. We were less likely to plan ahead because we're more likely to think that who we marry and our children are going to dictate our plans.

He isn’t like us Low. You know that right.” I knew what Cage was saying. Marcus was out of my league. He didn’t want me thinking there could ever be anything between me and his roommate. I was low class. Marcus was a rich kid. “I’m not stupid Cage.

Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.

It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.