Naveen Andrews Quotes

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

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

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

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.

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.

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

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

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

On the battlefield, there is no distinction between upper and lower class.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors.

I am no leveller; I look upon an artificial equality as equally pernicious with a factitious aristocracy; both depressing the energies and checking the enterprise of a nation.

Tory society is a closed society, in which birth and wealth have priority.

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 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.

For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

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 still matters in Britain today.

I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.