Cards Quote by Andrew O'Hagan

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the…

— Tracey Ullman

“You can imagine how distraught I feel when I hear about the glorified heroism-free “middle class values,” which, thanks to globalization and the Internet,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything…

— Andrew O'Hagan

“Work—especially the sort of work that gets your hands dirty and that brands you as a member of the working class—no longer seems germane…

— Gerald Howard

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

— Anonymous

A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary…

— Anthony Crosland

I am the typical British aspiring working class. To be called 'elite' by people who have inherited wealth and run hedge funds or worked…

— Gavin Esler

The decline of practical skills, some of them very day-to-day, among a generation of British men is very worrying. They can't put up a…

— James May

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to…

— Damian Lewis

“Class in England is no more determined by wealth than it is by occupation.”

— Kate Fox

I think there's a tendency in England, when you look at the past, to either have upper middle class period drama with its own…

— Steven Knight

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they…

— Jarvis Cocker