Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes

Marriage shall not take place between a patrician and a plebeian.

There shall not be intermarriage between plebeians and patricians

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.

In modern civilized communities... the members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratum.

In the local state school I attended in England, I saw and heard far more awareness of where a person stood in the social hierarchy than I had ever heard stateside.

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

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.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

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

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

In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.

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.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

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.

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

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

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.

I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

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

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

Everyone has class, one class or another.