Home / Quotes / Quote by Jacqueline Winspear

Quote by Jacqueline Winspear

“And then there's that double-barreled name a lot of them toffs have, like they have to drag their ancestors up from the grave so we all know who they're related to.”

Quote by Jacqueline Winspear

Book:The White Lady

Work

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Jacqueline Winspear

Jacqueline Winspear is a British author renowned for her detective novel series. Her works are characterized by historical background and complex character development, which have won her a wide readership. more

You May Also Like

“The most frightening thing about love is the appearance of “we.” For it means only one thing: the “I” has already been forgotten.”

Love Self Philosophy Relationships Psychology Human Nature Identity Individuality

Book:Before the Eyes of Doubt

Source: Before the Eyes of Doubt

“nor had he, then, lost his upper class arrogance, the innate conviction that it could not be serious - such things just don't happen, not to people one knows!”

Book:The Green Hills of Earth

Source: The Green Hills of Earth

“Rich people show their appreciation through favors. When everyone you know has more money than they know what to do with, money stops being a useful transactional tool. So instead you offer favors. Deals. Quid pro quos. Things that involve personal involvement rather than money. Because when you're that rich, your personal time is your limiting factor.”

Wealth Deals Rich People Upper Class Socioeconomics Quid Pro Quo

Book:Lock In

Source: Lock In

“You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.”

Fashion Details Elegance Upper Class

Book:The Last Time I Saw Paris

Source: The Last Time I Saw Paris

“Democracy is the process to elect government of the upper-class people, by the poor people and for the corporate people.”

People Government Poor Democracy Modern Corporate Poor People Upper Class Democracy Freedom New Quotes

Author:Nilesh (Neil) jain

“He’s [G.H.W. Bush] never had to do a day’s work in his life.”

Privilege Upper Class Elite George Herbert Walker Bush

Author:Bob Dole

“Refugees are not like you and me. They are you and me. That terrible river of the wretched and damned flowing through Europe is my family. And there is no time in the future in which they might be helped. The only time we have is now.”

Refugee Syrian Refugee Quotes Syrian War

Book:Notes on an Exodus

Source: Notes on an Exodus

“For many Syrians, the start of a new life in Europe was the third in a succession of traumas. The trauma of war was followed by the trauma of a death-defying journey, only to be eclipsed by the trauma of disappointed expectations upon arriving in the West.”

Syrian Refugee Quotes

Book:We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

Source: We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

“The regime has turned us into monsters so it can justify killing us by saying that it's fighting monsters... I imagine this man who loses his kids- the one thing that defines his future. I completely understand if he turns into a monster. But even a monster has hope. He hopes that someday he'll go back to being a normal human being.”

Syrian Refugee Quotes

Book:We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

Source: We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

“It's been so long since I heard that someone died of natural causes.”

Syrian Refugee Quotes

Book:We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

Source: We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria