Salvador Dali Quotes

The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

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

I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh, it's great, lots of fun, aren't they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!'

In affluent communities, where each member is keenly aware of his or her place within the Byzantine order, attracting the right friends is a blood sport. Chumming up to influential figures who are in a position to help can determine the course of an entire life.

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

We have been taught by experience the danger of the levelling spirit.

… in a republic where all are free and equal--prosperity and position constitute rank.

… an army of Gatsbys wanting not to overturn the social order but only to belong to the upper crust.

In modern civilized communities... the members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratum.

It's the people who transcend their backgrounds who are interesting to me. I have got a bit of inverted snobbery.

There's an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual's status by measuring his or her proximity to the most influential person in the room. And as the maxim goes, closer is always better.

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

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

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

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

For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.