Laura Wade Quotes

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

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

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image.

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

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.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

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.

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

Yeah, it is particularly upsetting to be called, whatever it was, sneery, or a snob, given the background I have.

I think poshness is very funny! But I think it's also delightful. There's something wonderful and very innocent about it, particularly with the Edwardians.

The Social Register is a nice address book for some people, but that's about it.

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

My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill Catholic primary school when we first moved to L.A. But then I went to a high school where there were lots of 'industry' children. Those weren't my best friends and I've never set out to make myself a part of that scene.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

I've never felt entirely comfortable in high society. I'm more comfortable talking to the bar staff than the super-rich. I don't really get what makes them tick.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

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