Tom Hiddleston Quotes

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.

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

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

A person born in the middle class, as I was, educated in bourgeois institutions, … is poorly prepared to take a leading part in revolutionary activity.

There are no human beings whose sense of social identity is fully and exclusively given for themselves by the membership of the working (or any other) class

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

I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

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

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

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.

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

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

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you're born working class, you're going to stay there, although that is changing.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.