Rory Bremner Quotes

The bourgeois are other people.

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

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

I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

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

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

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

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

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

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!'

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.

I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.

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

Ann Romney... looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles - eh! It's hard for me to believe. I mean, she's a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.

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.

Senators will associate only with men of their own class; and thus become strangers to the condition of the common people.

The ignorance of the working class and the superior intelligence of the privileged class are superstitions fostered by ... universities and churches, and by all the centers of privilege.

Davos is where billionaires tell millionairs what middle class people think.

When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.

Even though Mr. Trump is a billionaire, he is still able to relate to average working men and women. The billionaire gets along with the bricklayer.

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

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.