Anxious Quote by Raymond Williams

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

I think there's a tendency in England, when you look at the past, to either have upper middle class period drama with its own…

— Steven Knight

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

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the…

— Ed Miliband

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class.…

— Cesare Pavese

In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going…

— Nigel Cole

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

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

— Laura Carmichael

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

— Jilly Cooper

in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The truth is the middle class is not only stagnant but it is my fear that, without sustained and focused action, it is at…

— Jan Schakowsky

We know that the British public are obsessed with class.

— Lady Colin Campbell