"The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others." - Cicero

"When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?"
- JOHN BALL, speech (1381)

"The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire." - HERMANN HESSE, Der Steppenwolf

"How beastly the bourgeois is
Especially the male of the species."
- D.H. LAWRENCE, How Beastly the Bourgeois Is

"An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead." - NANCY MITFORD, Noblesse Oblige

"There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches." - HESKETH PEARSON, The Marrying Americans

"I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First, you take their faces away from `em by calling them masses, and then you accuse `em of not having any faces." - J.B. PRIESTLEY, Saturn Over the Water

"To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois." - JULES RENARD, The Journal of Jules Renard, ed. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget