We're not savages. We're English.

We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.

I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.

Pakistanis, living in England? They're not in a class by nature of where they've come from.

We have been but little molested, for we have not the things which most men value.

As to politics, we were like the rest of the country people in England; that is to say, we neither knew nor thought any thing about the matter.

Englishmen are moderate, careful to avoid unnecessary offence, slow to come to a dangerous and violent conclusion, and tenacious and resolute when the conclusion has once been arrived at.

Upper middle-class upbringing has rooted out any element of what might appear to be self-assertion or egoism; good manners is to be like everyone else. So the male of the species becomes accustomed to suppress any stirring of impatience or originality. Shaw once said you can't learn to skate without making a fool of yourself; the British middle-class attitude seems to be that, in that case, you hadn't better skate at all. The result seems to be considerably more oppressive than being brought up in a Jewish ghetto or a west side slum.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

Cannibals are no less dull than Englishmen.

Come on, Amelia. We are not really British. We do not have to look down our noses at honest labor.