Subject: Class Distinctions
Quote: “[M]ost of my work has been among these people. What they call the upper classes, I mean. You see, the majority of people are always wondering what the neighbors will think. But tramps and aristocrats don’t—they just do the first thing that comes into their heads, and they don’t bother to think what anyone thinks of them. I’m not meaning just the idle rich, the people who give big parties, and so on; I mean those that have had it born and bred in them for generations that nobody else’s opinion counts but their own. I’ve always found the upper classes the same—fearless, truthful, and sometimes extraordinarily foolish.”
Character: Superintendent Battle
Chapter/Story: 20—Battle and Anthony Confer
Book Title/Copyright: The Secret of Chimneys, 1925Subject: Social Niceties
Quote: He [Captain Allenson] laughed. Lady Cynthia laughed with him. Mr. Satterthwaite, who was in some ways a little old-fashioned, so much so that he seldom made fun of his host and hostess until after he had left their house, remained grave.
Character: Omniscient narrator
Chapter/Story: “The Shadow on the Glass”
Book Title/Copyright: The Mysterious Mr. Quin, 1930Subject: Well-bred Girl
Quote: “A well-bred girl…is always very particular to wear the right clothes for the right occasion. I mean, however hot the day was, a well-bred girl would never turn up at a point-to-point in a silk flowered frock.”
Character: Miss Jane Marple
Chapter/Story: 15
Book Title/Copyright: The Body in the Library, 1942
