Bob Mortimer Quotes

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

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.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh, it's great, lots of fun, aren't they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!'

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

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.

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

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 is more important than a game.

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

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

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

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

The bourgeois are other people.

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

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.

In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.

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.

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

I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.