Either Quote by Justin Cartwright

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

People in the upper classes can just as easily be indifferent to their own body, or treat themselves as badly, as people who don't…

— Lynne Tillman

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

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

— Vladimir Nabokov

As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal…

— Louis Auchincloss

Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or…

— Anthony Crosland

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

The English, of all ranks and classes, are at bottom, in all their feelings, aristocrats. They have some concept of liberty, and set some…

— John Stuart Mill

There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards.

— Ben Dolnick

Nothing about character is hereditary. Everyone, regardless of social background, financial status, race, or sex, enters the world with an equal opportunity to become…

— Michael Josephson

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely…

— Keira Knightley