Luke Harding Quotes

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

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

The affluent society makes no meaningful distinction between luxury and necessity.

The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer.

Southampton is for sporting rich; Bridgehampton is for nearly rich; East Hampton is for the very rich.

I don't remember going to school with anyone who had a Mercedes dealership.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.

A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life.

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

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

Which is more messed up- that we have so much compared to everyone else, or that we don't think we're rich? That on any given day, we might flippantly call ourselves 'broke' or 'poor?' We are neither of those things. We are rich. Filthy rich.

The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.

The rich are different from us.

Stupidity is a luxury and you will find time and time and time and again that those who are overwhelmingly on the left are those who can afford to be.

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

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