J. K. Rowling Quotes

We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

The one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

I never knew the lower classes had such white skins.

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

I think you will find me to be a typical middle-class American.

We have a myth of the classless society. You won't hear an American politician apart from Bernie Sanders talk about the working class. We are all middle class, apparently.

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

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

I am hard-core middle class.

I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

The bourgeois are other people.

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.