Upper Class English Quotes

#1. 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.

Tracey Ullman

#2. ...and opened his mouth to speak in that precise drawl which is the trademark of the overly educated upper class english gentleman. A high voice: A biting one: definitely an eccentric.

Laurie R. King

#3. If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.

Peter Jennings

#4. She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

Jodi Picoult

#5. the progress of real purpose is crippled where lack of money is equated to lack of zeal

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. He held her for a minute, then two, then three, simply holding her and committing to memory what he could not have in life.

Courtney Milan

#8. My Dad taught me that the English upper class are sent to school to be taught to be confident, whereas in Glasgow you're born confident. I've always thought that pretty much summed me up. Born confident.

Rankin

#9. Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country.

George Vecsey

#10. People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

Nhat Hanh

#11. If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.

Lady Violet