Vinnie Jones Quotes

Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.

Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

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.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

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.

Because of England's lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters.

I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

The middle class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but it is its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

Keep up the middle class; lop off aristocracy on the one hand, and a rabble at the other; let the middle class ... have the power.

Senators will associate only with men of their own class; and thus become strangers to the condition of the common people.

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.

Like Venice’s oligarchs, America’s super-rich are destroying the social mobility that creates wealth.

The fact that you're successful doesn't mean that you can't relate to working people.

When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.

I didn't come from a council estate like a lot of the lads do.