Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class...
We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.
Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.
You don’t understand the class structure of American society," said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a question. In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.
When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.
Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.
I suppose that I'm fairly comfortable with the clown hat on.
I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping.
When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown.
I hate clowns. I've mentioned that, right?
I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.
The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.
The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always ...
In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.
