Yuppies quotes
17 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of performance, mentally indifferent to any objective other than that of change and advertising."
"If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south."
"The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic."
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