George Mikes Quotes

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.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

I was as middle class as it comes.

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

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

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

Because I came from the working class, I still identify with them. I don't identify with the middle class.

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

You may be the most liberal, Liberal Englishman, and yet you cannot fail to see the categorical difference between the responsible and the irresponsible classes.

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

The charm of Britain has always been the ease with which one can move into the middle class.

There are no human beings whose sense of social identity is fully and exclusively given for themselves by the membership of the working (or any other) class

You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.

Politicians seem desperate to appeal to their respective versions of the so called 'middle class,' unable to empathise with the precariat and eager to dream up fresh and tougher sanctions against society's wounded.

The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to protect, you know what I mean?

I grew up in the middle class.

Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.