David Lindsay-Abaire Quotes

Class is real. It can't be faked.

'High Cotton' is more conscious of class than 'Black Deutschland.'

My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

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

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.

Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.

In England, the class system is about a thousand years old, and it's not going to change any time soon.

Class is really interesting to me, maybe because I'm from England where there is a pretty hideous, deep-rooted obsession with class. I don't like the obsession with class, but it certainly interests me.

Practically everyone I know now is from a middle- or upper-middle-class background, and I no longer have the huge chip on my shoulder that I carried around for so many years. I'm not sure it comes out much in the work, but coming from this kind of background is absolutely central to my identity, to my sense of who I am.

Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

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

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

I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?

And understand: class differences will not save you.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.