Famous quotes containing the words class and/or people:
“There is ... a class of fancies, of exquisite delicacy, which are not thoughts, and to which, as yet, I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt language.... Now, so entire is my faith in the power of words, that at times, I have believed it possible to embody even the evanescence of fancies such as I have attempted to describe.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“Most people know no other way of judging men’s worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)