David O. Selznick Quotes

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.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

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

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

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

Class still matters in Britain today.

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?

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 don't like a class system. I don't like the idea of being in a different class than other people.

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

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.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.

Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

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.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

Language does not make one an elite.

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

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

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

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

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 think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.