Daniel Craig Quotes

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.

In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton's class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that.

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.

The bourgeois are other people.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh, it's great, lots of fun, aren't they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!'

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

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

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

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Class is more important than a game.

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'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.

… an army of Gatsbys wanting not to overturn the social order but only to belong to the upper crust.

Class has always been Tom Wolfe's subject, and I suspect the reason for much of the disfavor in which he is held.

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.

It was hugely helpful to me, being South African. I have never felt uncomfortable in posh society because I don't see what it is that I'm meant to be bowing the knee about.

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.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!

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

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.