London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.
Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.
Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.
For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.
If there's one epithet the Right never tires of, it's 'elitism.'
I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
Essentially, Louis XIV created exclusivity. If we look at how we live our lives today, many of us are members of clubs or gyms. We search out exclusivity. He created the world of fashion at Versailles.
Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know.
[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.
It's become fashionable to put down people who we then expect to vote for us.
I think poshness is very funny! But I think it's also delightful. There's something wonderful and very innocent about it, particularly with the Edwardians.
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.
I hate when people call me a socialite because you have to have money to be a socialite, which I don't have.
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.
Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
Most people are not intellectuals — a fact that intellectuals have terrible trouble coming to terms with.
Let's face it: most jerks trying to affect an ascot look like Thurston Howell III.
I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.
I've had tweets questioning whether I really did go to university because surely I would have lost my accent if I did; a letter suggesting, very politely, that I get correction therapy; and an email saying I should get back to my council estate and leave the serious work to the clever folk.
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.
