Katherine Kelly Quotes

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

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

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

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

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

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.

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

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.

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

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

Keep up the middle class; lop off aristocracy on the one hand, and a rabble at the other; let the middle class ... have the power.

The charm of Britain has always been the ease with which one can move into the middle class.

One of the great things about making 'Reel History' was meeting British people from all over the class system. It made me realise that London is a different country.

In the local state school I attended in England, I saw and heard far more awareness of where a person stood in the social hierarchy than I had ever heard stateside.

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

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

For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.

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

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

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.

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