Douglas Booth Quotes

Only the elites despise earning money.

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

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

If you're white working class, it's very easy to caricature the elites, and if you're elite, it's very easy to caricature the white working class.

Cricket was deemed too posh where I came from, and I'd never have risked walking home through the estates in my whites. My club played some of the posh schools. I'd have the cheapest kit, but I loved those games. As soon as the posh lads opened their mouths and you heard their accents, the stakes were raised.

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

Character and class are character and class. Either you have it or you don't.

Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.

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.

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

And understand: class differences will not save you.

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.

Because of England's lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters.

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

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!'

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.

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.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

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

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

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'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

There are only two classes - first class and no class.