Chuck Klosterman Quotes

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

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

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

There are only two classes - first class and no class.

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

Most Bolton students were scions of the city's wealthiest families. My crewe stuck out like hooker at church. We werent part of their pampered, priveliged world, and many of our classmates were quick to remind us of that fact. Taunting the "boat kids" was practically a varsity sport.

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government.

I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

I think Good Charlotte has definitely always been for the underdogs and the misfits. We haven't ever really been the critics' darlings.

Character and class are character and class. Either you have it or you don't.

I am from a very vague caste. I don't belong to any of the four. I am kayastha. They are well read, largely clerks so they get treated respectfully.

Class is a big issue here. And some people get picked on more than others. I think we probably do. I mean, it doesn't help that we wear waistcoats and tweed the whole time. But there is a reverse snobbishness in England towards that sort of stuff. And I think that's one of the reasons we really enjoy America, 'cos we're classless.

For the Anglo-Saxons, food determined a person's position in society.

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

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

Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I've ever experienced. It's made more difficult by the fact that it's constantly changing. You never know what class you belong to unless you're one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.

[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.

The Clique: The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.

Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.

Every class is unfit to govern.

Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil

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

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

We all have a sense of level. It may not be based on class exactly anymore, but we still have a sense of what we're entitled to. People pick partners who are nearly their equal in looks. The pretty marry the pretty, the ugly the ugly. To the detriment of the breed.

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.