Quotes About Class

Posh people blow my mind. Apart from empathy, they're good at everything - true survivalists.

I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.

I do speak well as I went to a posh school. But I come from no real breeding.

I've always seen kids with parents who were still together as quite posh.

Now that I've met posh people, I think you meet some you like and some you don't.

That's the way I like my posh people, up front. I like the fact that Jack Whitehall will talk about being posh, or David Mitchell.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

You must, if it's possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It's part of you, of yourself.

The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.

If you are dim but have rich parents, a life of comfort, affluence and power is almost inevitable - while the bright but poor are systematically robbed of their potential.

In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires.

I'm open to fighting at 185 or 205 pounds, but I think I need to give this 185-pound run a real, honest crack. Being at this weight class has definitely made me into a different fighter.

You can only get away with fighting as the lighter guy in a weight class for so long. That's what I was doing at 170 pounds.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

At my age, I only travel business class because I just don't bend anymore; my body can't cope with it.

'High Cotton' is more conscious of class than 'Black Deutschland.'

As soon as I speak, I think people go, 'Well, he obviously must have grown up on a council estate, gone to a comprehensive school and be working class - so I can relate to him.'

I always considered myself working class, because I was brought up on a council estate. I still do, really. I mean, I might have a bit more money now than I did then, but it's in your head, class, I think. It's how you feel in there.