Josh O'Connor Quotes

I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.

I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

I do not believe that monarchy and aristocracy will continue seven years longer in any of the enlightened countries of Europe

I love the Queen. I love the whole fairy tale of the Royal Family; the Crown Jewels; Buckingham Palace; the tourist attraction. But really, is that what we've got a monarchy for? It's just for tourism, and then you survive and live off taxpayers' money?

The Magna Carta was the first class-based charter, enforced on the monarchy by the rising class.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

Class still matters in Britain today.

For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

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

'Downton Abbey' is a pageant, a cavalcade of a time when being born right is the first and most irrevocable career move, and in which an older order - whose passing 'Downton's' creator, Julian Fellowes, clearly mourns - is submerging in icy seas as surely as a grand and extravagant ocean liner.

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.