Antipathy Quote by Anonymous

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

— Jilly Cooper

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

Britain's obsession with class has always been there.

— Jean Marsh

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that…

— Thomas Malthus

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

— Francesca Annis

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

— Andrew O'Hagan

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a…

— Michael Caine

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

— Simon Hoggart

We know that the British public are obsessed with class.

— Lady Colin Campbell

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