Winston Marshall Quotes

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors.

... more snobbish than their English butlers.

In the local state school I attended in England, I saw and heard far more awareness of where a person stood in the social hierarchy than I had ever heard stateside.

Yeah, it is particularly upsetting to be called, whatever it was, sneery, or a snob, given the background I have.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

On the battlefield, there is no distinction between upper and lower class.

I never knew the lower classes had such white skins.

To abolish class distinctions means abolishing a part of yourself.

Choose equality …. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect … of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

I've been with all walks of life... All people from all status.

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

Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing.

It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

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.

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.