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The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.

I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

Even if they're not Asian or super rich... everyone has a nagging mother. Everyone has that obnoxious uncle, or that cousin who's a bit too snobby.

My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.