The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choic…

- Raymond Williams

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in complet…

- Raymond Williams

A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper…

- Raymond Williams

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

- Raymond Williams

There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses

- Raymond Williams

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.

- Raymond Williams

The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.

- Raymond Williams

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

- Raymond Williams

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 workin…

- Raymond Williams