Britain Quote by Miriam Margolyes

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

I don't like class distinction, and there is far too much of that in England.

— Miriam Margolyes

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

We know that the British public are obsessed with class.

— Lady Colin Campbell

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

— George Orwell

The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans:…

— Gore Vidal

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

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

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

— Laura Carmichael

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

Class is a big issue here. And some people get picked on more than others. I think we probably do. I mean, it doesn't…

— Winston Marshall