Class Quote by George Orwell

“England is the most class-ridden country under the sun,” Orwell charged in “The Lion and the Unicorn.” “It is a land of snobbery and…

— Thomas E Ricks

England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens…

— Stephen Daldry

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

— John Cleese

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

— Charles Kingsley

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

— Jilly Cooper

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

— Francesca Annis

England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also…

— Pete Townshend

England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply…

— Colin MacInnes

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

— George Bernard Shaw

I think Britain is a bit class-ridden. People tend to be judged by how rounded their vowels are.

— Miriam Margolyes

Britain's obsession with class has always been there.

— Jean Marsh