Jess Phillips Quotes

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

The one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

Working class people vote Tory because they think it makes them look a bit posh.

I grew up in the middle class.

We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you. You have a $500 suit on and you're still a lowlife.

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.

I'm painfully middle class.

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.

I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.

I was as middle class as it comes.

The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to protect, you know what I mean?