Phyllis McGinley Quotes

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

Democrats' definition of 'rich' - always seems to be set just above whatever the salary happens to be for a member of Congress. Perhaps that says it all.

Class still matters in Britain today.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

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

The one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

You may be the most liberal, Liberal Englishman, and yet you cannot fail to see the categorical difference between the responsible and the irresponsible classes.

There is nothing more frightening to a political satirist than an honest administration.

Both Conservative and Labour politicians in Britain are rather too fond of praising the relative 'classlessness' of American society and of urging their own people to emulate it. There is a certain falseness about such arguments, and also a certain hypocrisy.

I think me and Macklemore exist in two different worlds.

You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.

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

Most Bolton students were scions of the city's wealthiest families. My crewe stuck out like hooker at church. We werent part of their pampered, priveliged world, and many of our classmates were quick to remind us of that fact. Taunting the "boat kids" was practically a varsity sport.

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked... and comedians are always talking about politics.

Ann Romney talking about middle class moms is like Chris Christie talking about a salad

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

He isn’t like us Low. You know that right.” I knew what Cage was saying. Marcus was out of my league. He didn’t want me thinking there could ever be anything between me and his roommate. I was low class. Marcus was a rich kid. “I’m not stupid Cage.