There are, it is true, still a few minor points of life which may serve to demarcate the upper class, but they are only minor ones... When drunk, gentlemen often become amorous or maudlin or vomit in public, but they never become truculent.


'U and Non-U: An Essay in Sociological Linguistics' (1954)

Alan S. C. Ross Quotes

There are, it is true, still a few minor points of life which may serve to demarcate the upper class, but they are only minor ones... When drunk,...

There are, it is true, still a few minor points of life which may serve to demarcate the upper class, but they are only minor ones... When drunk,...

There are, it is true, still a few minor points of life which may serve to demarcate the upper class, but they are only minor ones... When drunk,...

There are, it is true, still a few minor points of life which may serve to demarcate the upper class, but they are only minor ones... When drunk,...