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 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

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

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

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