David Mitchell Quotes

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.

While we recognize … the class origins of political parties we do not reduce every difference between parties to a class difference.

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

In most countries, class, education, religion, and regions are better predictors of voting behavior than sex.

Boxers don't tend to come from Cambridge or Oxford. Sometimes the things we say don't come out well. We are not known for our vocabulary.

I come from a middle-class family in Gwalior.

I didn't have the clothes that a kid with a famous, rich dad would have. I didn't have the house. I didn't have the mannerisms. I didn't have the sense of entitlement. And I don't mean that in a bad way: I just - we didn't have the stuff.

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey.

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

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

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.

The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.

Marriages are so complicated that no one person is the culprit. But, I am really interested in class without really realizing that I am. It's more the manifestations of different classes that interest me.

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.

We're going to start seeing that it's actually less about race and more about class in the future. As much as we complain about the establishment discriminating against black people, we're going to start seeing that more of us are already in the establishment.