Idea Quote by Michael Caine

I think people tend to underestimate you when you have a Northern accent, for instance if you have to talk to the CEO of…

— Steph McGovern

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

— Paloma Faith

In Britain, class is a neurosis. You judge people from the moment they open their mouth and start speaking: what their accent represents in…

— Dan Fox

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

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I grew up poor with a very distinctive working-class accent. In England in the 1980s and 1990s this would have impeded my professional advancement.…

— Fiona Hill

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

I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.

— Miriam Margolyes

I am a young woman, with a regional accent, from a working class family, who has had a pretty standard education. So far, so…

— Steph McGovern

People with accents exist and just because they have an accent doesn't mean they're less intelligent or what-have-you.

— Nico Santos

Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in…

— Edwin Newman

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