Famous quotes containing the words ladder and/or company:
“You will see ... that it is easier to go down the social ladder than to climb it.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)