Prue Leith Quotes

I'm not interested in classes ... Far be it from me to foster inferiority complexes among the workers by trying to make them think they belong to some special class.

I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.

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

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

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

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

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

Every society naturally divides itself into classes. The author of nature has bestowed on some greater capacities than on others--birth, education, talents and wealth, create distinctions among men as visible and of as much influence as titles, stars and garters. In every society, men of this class will command a superior degree of respect--and if the government is so constituted as to admit but few to exercise the powers of it, it will, according to the natural course of things, be in their hands.

Aristocracy is naturally abhorrent to me, and adored equality is my idol.

The middle class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but it is its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it.

We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too have class and elitism.

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

Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Class still matters in Britain today.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

Language does not make one an elite.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

There'll always be that prep in me that I can't seem to get rid of.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.