Class Quote by Raymond Williams

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

— Francesca Annis

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 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

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“To attain, and to keep, a professional-managerial job requires class-specific human capital. Developing and displaying that capital is a central preoccupation of upper-middle class…

— Susan T. Fiske

Servants honor their master by their service.

— Franz Grillparzer

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

— Maria Montessori

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

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“By and large the aristocracy was intelligent enough. The problem was that its members had no need to live by their wits. Thus their…

— Loretta Chase

We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class…

— Raymond Williams

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

— Jilly Cooper

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to…

— Damian Lewis