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Upper Class Quotes

I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink,

I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly experienced French peasant girls galloping up and down my - hang on.

Rowan Atkinson
Girl, Drinking, Upper Class

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

Oscar Wilde
Ignorance, Upper Class, Gone
1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Class, Upper Class, Morality

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

Margaret Halsey
Upper Class, Insulting, Asking
With Malice Toward Some pt. 3 (1938)

How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?

James M. Barrie
Morning, Upper Class, Pull Ups

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.

Nicholas Haslam
Upper Class, Piano, House

The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.

Jilly Cooper
Upper Class, Feet, Good Man

I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.

A. N. Wilson
Self, Upper Class, Towns

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