Francesca Annis Quotes

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

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.

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

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

I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.

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

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

The division of society into estates or castes means in effect that conceptually and organizationally these ‘natural’ forms are established without their economic basis ever becoming conscious

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

Asa Briggs was a historian of class history, so he felt obligated to bring in his driver. That's the English class thing that is much weaker now.

I don't think old posh is as intimidating as new posh, is it?

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

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

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.

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.

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

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

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

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

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

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

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.