Walter Lord Quotes

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

The one think I hate about rich people, is that they really think that they work harder than poor people.

Oligarchy is to the advantage of the rich. Democracy to the advantage of the poor.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

The rich make life more interesting: they are a luxury a civilized society should be able to afford.

I do not like the rich.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

The rich follow Wealth, and the Poor the Rich.

If money doesn’t make any difference, how come the rich spend so much on their schools?

Our rich people are not an ethnic minority. A poor person in Tennessee or Arkansas can say, "I'm not wealthy, but maybe my son or my daughter can grow up to be Bill Gates, or Bill Clinton." That's absolutely not true in countries like Zimbabwe, or Burma, or Indonesia, or Bolivia, where the majority of the people look around and they say, "Everybody who's rich belongs to a different ethnic group.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

You have to accommodate the rich and the new rich under the same roof.

I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.