
Vanity Fair (February 1920)
Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/07/two-classes/
Cassandra (1860)
Context: The progressive world is necessarily divided into two classes — those who take the best of what there is and enjoy it — those who wish for something better and try to create it. Without these two classes the world would be badly off. They are the very conditions of progress, both the one and the other. Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Vanity Fair (February 1920)
Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/07/two-classes/
“I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”
“The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t.”
In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.
Aleph (2011)
Don, in The Philanthropist (1969), scene 6
Have You a Hobby?, Answers, 21 April 1934
Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol IV, Churchill at Large, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 288. ISBN 0903988453
The 1930s