Frank Abagnale Quotes

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order.

Character and class are character and class. Either you have it or you don't.

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

The post of honour is a private station.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

Money doesn't buy class.

For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.

In modern civilized communities... the members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratum.

Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

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

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

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

Language does not make one an elite.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

There'll always be that prep in me that I can't seem to get rid of.

I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

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

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.