Zal Batmanglij Quotes

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

…nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

I do not like the rich.

Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.

Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.

I've known white Australian girls from wealthy families who were sent to posh private schools, who knew all of that stuff, and I think would recognise much in Jefferson's book. What I related to most strongly was the sexism and misogyny Margo Jefferson had to battle.

Rich folk don't try so hard

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR? Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.