Al Capone Quotes

Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive empathy as a sign of muddle-headed weakness rather than as a marker of civilization.

Champagne Socialist

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.

I don't like class distinction, and there is far too much of that in England.

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.

I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

The bias against the show is purely elitist. We're all like the people on the show - the difference is that some of us speak better, or were born richer. There's nothing that happens on my show that rich people don't experience.

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.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

Class still matters in Britain today.

'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.