Kathryn Stockett Quotes

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

The rich are different from us.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

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

It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.

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."

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.

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.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

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

Let some people get rich first.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

Money doesn't buy class.

THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.

I am a capitalist—a rich businessman and most of you are not.

The rich make life more interesting: they are a luxury a civilized society should be able to afford.

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.

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

…nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

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

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.