Social Difference Quotes

“Never heard of them [Nick's colleagues]," he remarked decisively. This annoyed me.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“She came to know a different London and she saw it through different eyes. The city was all things to all men. It reflected and deepened mood; it did not create it. Here the miserable were more miserable, the lonely more bereft, while the prosperous and happy saw reflected in its river and glittering life the confirmation of their deserved success. In her week of seeking, unsuccessfully, for a flat in which she could bear, even temporarily, to live, Philippa felt increasingly depressed and rejected.”
― P.D. James, Innocent Blood