Drama Quote by Steven Knight

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

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

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

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

— Simon Hoggart

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

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

— Jilly Cooper

The whole class system has oppressed so many people and given them such lack of opportunity. They are fed such strong narratives that this…

— Zoya Akhtar

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

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

— Anonymous