Characteristics Quote by Edward Morgan Forster

Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

— E. M. Forster

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

— Francesca Annis

A country's middle class is its bedrock.

— Philip Kotler

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 term “middle class” concealed a fact long true about this country, that, as Richard Hofstadter said: “It was . . . a middle-class…

— Howard Zinn

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

— Matt Damon

The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household…

— Alissa Quart

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.

— Eliot Engel

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

— Matthew Arnold

What hinders the middle class the most is taxes, and what hinders business from creating jobs and moving people into the middle class are…

— Kathy Szeliga

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

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

— Karl Lagerfeld