Quotes by Upper Class 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. A. N. Wilson towns upper-class self How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds? James M. Barrie pull-ups upper-class morning 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. Jilly Cooper good-man upper-class feet The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. Margaret Halsey upper-class insulting asking Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles. Napoleon Bonaparte morality upper-class class Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano. Nicholas Haslam piano upper-class house Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. Oscar Wilde upper-class ignorance gone 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. Rowan Atkinson upper-class girl drinking