"The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent."

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Ben Kingsley

#Class Quotes #Hierarchy Quotes #London Quotes

“By turns the nine delight to sing”
“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”

Source : Samuel Johnson (1834). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.14
“Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.”
“I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.”
“What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.”
“You are upset because one of your actors got on the wrong lane doing something with the wrong people. And you want to blame somebody else for it. And you got to dig up some poor-ass idiot that don't have the brain of a retarded spastican and make him a cult leader!”
“Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!”

Source : Marion D. Hanks (1974). “The Gift of Self”, Bookcraft, Incorporated
“In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.”

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