Upper Class Quotes

I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly experienced French peasant girls galloping up and down my - hang on.

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

Morality for the upper classes,
the gallows for the rabbles.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.

The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.

I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.