Class Petty Officer

Famous quotes containing the words class, petty and/or officer:

“People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.”
—Brian Friel (b. 1929)

“The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.”
—Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)

“Oh he’s doing fine, Michael. Nevertheless, he’s an officer and a gentleman, and that’s no job for a gentleman.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)