Lisa Stansfield Quotes

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

I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.

Because I sometimes shopped in Waitrose, I thought I was actually quite posh. I've realised that I'm basically a scullery maid. Even the middle-class people who I meet in parliament, people who live in London - which I think is remarkable because how can anybody afford to live there - seem much, much more middle class than me.

Football is generally a working-class sport, and because of the fact I went to private school and was brought up slightly differently, people think that makes me a different person.

We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.

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 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.

The one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

The political tendencies of the various social classes are based on a correct practical instinct.

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

I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.

Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad.

Not that I am hugely working class, but in the U.K. I'm always perceived, casting-wise, as being working class.

People often think of America as a classless society, but, of course, that isn't true. Within immigrant communities, there's an enormous distinction of class, depending on who your parents are, and that kind of thing comes out really quick in things like marriage and interpersonal relationships.

Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.

As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them?

In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.