Class Structure Gifts

Road rage on a mobility scooter.

Rich man vomiting euros to a beggar.

"Biff's old money, Angelo is new money and Boris is funny money."

"It was a holiday I'll never forget...I saw life in the raw!"

"Do you think that will count as our 'Fifteen minutes of fame'?"

"What's wrong, girl? Trouble? Rachel can't decide which private school to attend?" "Upper West Side Lassie"

"Everybody comfortable? Got what they want? Know their place?"

"Me, I think Master and Mistress are incompetent: why else would they need a butler, 3 maids, 2 cooks, 5 gardeners, a pool boy and 2 personal assistants?"

"I have my pants put on one leg at a time."

"These 'ordinary working class' types, I think my scout at Oxford must have been one."

'Oh no! The sharp elbowed middle class!'

The blue-collar diner for white-collar people...

'That's our group plan.'

Barrister startled by a witness' description of him

Giggling during the debate didn't cost you the election. The mile coming out of your nose cost you the election.

"I know what's happened. This is Meet-n-mingle. You should be next door at Hobnobbing."

"You can't bully me."

"What's it like in the real economy?"

Poet and Peasant

"This is not the sort of America I envisioned, Tom-an America in which the middle class has to use public transportation."

David Cameron Parenting Classes: 'After registering them for Eton the next most important thing is selecting the right nanny!'

Newly Non-Mega-Rich

Cabs vs Omnibuses

"Don't worry about expenses. This will all be passed along to the consumer."

"Well, of course all of my jokes are going to punch down."

'It's not fair! I'm socially excluded from gang culture.'

"I'd be fun, too, if you had her money."

North / South divide

A bridge between the 'haves' and the 'have nots' crumbles.

"Actually, Tommy, we're just about full-blooded management, except for your grandfather on your mom's side, who was one-quarter labor."

Peers and the Nobility - Parties

Fanny and Little Dorrit call on Mrs. Merdle

Genteel man in spacious conservatory, depicted next to family in a cramped garret: 'What the people can want with a crystal palace on Sundays, I can't think! Surely they ought to be contented with their church and then home afterwards.'

Proud to be posh!

'Mother, the other children won't permit me to participate in their activities -- they allege that I have elitist tendencies.'