Sara Paretsky Quotes

The rich are different from us.

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.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.

In every country, and under every government, particular men may be too rich.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

What is called sound economics is very often what mirrors the needs of the respectably affluent.

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

There aren't any poor cable hosts.

In the United States, it is all about money: those who have it and those who don't.

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

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

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.

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.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

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.