Marco Pierre White Quotes

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

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

I've never felt entirely comfortable in high society. I'm more comfortable talking to the bar staff than the super-rich. I don't really get what makes them tick.

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.

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

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

You may be the most liberal, Liberal Englishman, and yet you cannot fail to see the categorical difference between the responsible and the irresponsible classes.

The tradesmen are the only gentry in England.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

The ignorance of the working class and the superior intelligence of the privileged class are superstitions fostered by ... universities and churches, and by all the centers of privilege.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.

In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.

We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.

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

I'm not part of a middle-class establishment. I'm working class, and I grew up in a council house.

The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie.

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

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.

Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.

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.