F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Mitt Romney said he's not concerned about the very poor. What he means is people making less than a million.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

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 patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

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

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.

The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

The rich - they just live in another realm, really.