Amy Carter Quotes

The middle class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but it is its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it.

A Plowman on his knees is higher than a Gentleman on his legs.

You're a socialite because you're born into it. That's not what I want.

In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Language does not make one an elite.

In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.

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.

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

Every society naturally divides itself into classes. The author of nature has bestowed on some greater capacities than on others--birth, education, talents and wealth, create distinctions among men as visible and of as much influence as titles, stars and garters. In every society, men of this class will command a superior degree of respect--and if the government is so constituted as to admit but few to exercise the powers of it, it will, according to the natural course of things, be in their hands.

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

The great families have their privileges.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.

We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.

It was hugely helpful to me, being South African. I have never felt uncomfortable in posh society because I don't see what it is that I'm meant to be bowing the knee about.

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

I do speak well as I went to a posh school. But I come from no real breeding.

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

Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.

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

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.