classes
Variant of classis
clas·sis (klas′is)
classes Quotes
All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests. Jevons,William Stanley
Likethemain-travelled road of life it istraversed by many classes of people, but the poor and the weary predominate. Garland, (Hannibal) Hamlin
She doesn't have anything to do with youth clubs. There are classes within classes in Peckham. Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah ne¤ e Camberg
Comfort came in with the middle classes. Bell, (Arthur) Clive Howard
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. 910 Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes. Coupland, Douglas
All books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. Ruskin,John
The day must come when the nation's whole scale of living must be reduced. If that day comes,Parliament must lay the burden equally on all classes. Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
Let all the little poets be gathered together in classes And let prizes be given to them by the Prize Asses. Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret)
The General Strike has taught the working classes more in four days than years of talking could have done. Balfour, ArthurJames Balfour, 1st Earl
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. they have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite! Marx, Karl Heinrich
I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins. Curzon (of Kedleston), Lord George Nathaniel
All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes. Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America. Hellman, Lillian Florence
What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society. Marx, Karl Heinrich
Society is composed of two large classes; those who have more dinners than appetites, and those with more appetites than dinners. Chamfort, Se¤ bastien-Roch Nicolas
Organised outdoor sports for the old ruling classes. Hobson,John Atkinson
Who will dare deny that theThird Estate contains within itself all that is needed to constitute a nation? What would theThird Estate be without theprivileged classes? It would be a whole in itself, and a prosperous one. Nothing can be done without it, and everything would be done far better without the others. Sie' yes
The stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the upper classes Have still the upper hand. Coward, Sir Noe« l Peirce
There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes. Shaw, George Bernard
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. Ford, Ford Madox originally Ford Hermann Hueffer
In America there are two classes of travelöfirst class, and with children. Benchley, Robert Charles
No writer before the middle of the19th century wrote about the working classes other thanasgrotesques oras pastoral decorations. Then when they were given the vote certain writers started to suck up to them. Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
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