Katherine Ryan Quotes

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

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

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.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

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

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.

When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in places that are hard to find on a map, but that they also use the names of seasons as verbs. When they asked me, 'Where did you summer and winter growing up?' I would usually say, 'As a child? The same place I springed and autumned.'

Money doesn't buy class.

Class is more important than a game.

... more snobbish than their English butlers.

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.

In the West, it's just a given that art exists in this high-class place. But in Japan, there's no high class. The minute you come out, you're low class.

We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too have class and elitism.

It's the Met Gala - everyone is huge. It feels very hierarchical, and I get really nervous in hierarchical spaces because I feel like everyone deserves to feel just as special as everyone else, but that's just not the way it is in this business.

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

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.

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.

It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.