Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

The one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

My dad was working class.

I come from a very working-class background.

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

Because I came from the working class, I still identify with them. I don't identify with the middle class.

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

I come from blue collar. I'm very working class.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

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

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

I come from a very working-class background.

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.

I come from a blue collar background.

I grew up in the middle class.

I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.

I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded as a defect, a limitation of my imagination. I could put myself in their position, but not politically. The idea of writing a story or a book about somebody completely devoid of appreciation of anything I care about is completely foreign to me.

We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

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

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

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