Alissa Quart Quotes

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

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

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

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

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

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

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

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

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.

I don't like a class system. I don't like the idea of being in a different class than other people.

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.

Any organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.

In England, the class system is about a thousand years old, and it's not going to change any time soon.

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

We know that the British public are obsessed with class.

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.

People often think of America as a classless society, but, of course, that isn't true. Within immigrant communities, there's an enormous distinction of class, depending on who your parents are, and that kind of thing comes out really quick in things like marriage and interpersonal relationships.

Class is a big issue here. And some people get picked on more than others. I think we probably do. I mean, it doesn't help that we wear waistcoats and tweed the whole time. But there is a reverse snobbishness in England towards that sort of stuff. And I think that's one of the reasons we really enjoy America, 'cos we're classless.

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

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.

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.