Jilly Cooper Quotes

There are only two classes - first class and no class.

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

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

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.

Class still matters in Britain today.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Ideas are fatal to caste.

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

Class is real. It can't be faked.

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.

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.

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

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

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.