F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Class still matters in Britain today.

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks, the upper crust and the WASPs at the country club. We had chickens and pigs in our yards. We butchered every year. I'll never forget those things.

I didn't come from a council estate like a lot of the lads do.

Not everybody's life is like 'Gossip Girl.'

The Four Horsemen were limousines and Lear Jets, while DX was trailer parks and outhouses. One was white trash, one was upper crust. I always saw DX and the NWO as the natural rivals at the time.

There's always been a nasty strain of class prejudice ingrained in the condemnation of football's 'undeserving rich,' as if the working class is uniquely susceptible to being corrupted by money, and as if they deserve their wealth less than those born to it.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.

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

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

I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

Because of England's lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters.

Language does not make one an elite.