Lady Colin Campbell Quotes

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

On the battlefield, there is no distinction between upper and lower class.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

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

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

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

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.

We in England, divide our people commonly into four sorts, as gentlemen, citizens or burgesses, yeomen, and artificers or labourers.

… an army of Gatsbys wanting not to overturn the social order but only to belong to the upper crust.

We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.

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.

Class is really interesting to me, maybe because I'm from England where there is a pretty hideous, deep-rooted obsession with class. I don't like the obsession with class, but it certainly interests me.

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

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

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

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.

Class still matters in Britain today.

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

I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

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.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.