Always Quote by Chris Martin

We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class…

— Raymond Williams

The egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems to me…

— Martin Amis

The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate…

— Toby Young

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

— Colin Firth

The old saying that "success breeds success" has something to it. It's that feeling of confidence that can banish negativity and procrastination and get…

— Donald Trump

If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what…

— Mike Zimmer

The initial 18th-, 19th-century intention was to give the less-educated lower classes a way to move up into this new, rising middle class, to…

— Kory Stamper

Some may be jealous, some may be happy, some may have more expectations, some may be proud. Your success is a blend of emotions…

— 5h45hvut

Some people are more worried about seeing you fail than seeing their own success.

— Anonymous

When people come to see you, they know what you do. That's what they want. They want it to be quite English; they don't…

— Noel Fielding

In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like…

— Aphex Twin