Top 96 Posh Quotes
#1. I am not posh. I went to a comprehensive school.
Jessica Raine
#2. I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.
Emily Mortimer
#3. I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.
David Bowie
#4. When posh boys get into trouble they sack the servants.
Dennis Skinner
#5. It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret.
David Kynaston
#6. What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organise everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.
Jenny Eclair
#7. Everyone loves a flawed hero. I don't want perfect people. I want people who have a story, have been through some shit, dance to their own beat and still make i work, not the fake-arsed posh fuck-wits who look down on us slightly geeky weird-but-cool entrepreneurs.
Dan Meredith
#8. I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.
Kaya Scodelario
#9. I've known white Australian girls from wealthy families who were sent to posh private schools, who knew all of that stuff, and I think would recognise much in Jefferson's book. What I related to most strongly was the sexism and misogyny Margo Jefferson had to battle.
Justine Larbalestier
#10. I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.
Celia Imrie
#11. Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her, and I said: 'That's not cool, that's really mean.'
Cara Delevingne
#12. It was a pretty posh place. They were so used to fur coats that two bears strolled in and ordered lunch and nobody even noticed.
Chic Murray
#13. We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
Akio Morita
#14. Oh I bet you're sweet as under all that posh.'
And he looked at her in a way that left her in no doubt that he wasn't talking about the way she might move on the dance floor. If he mentioned honey pots she was going to pour her vodka shot over him. 'You'll never know,
Amy Andrews
#15. There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
Kate Reardon
#16. Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
Laura Wade
#17. I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.
Dominic West
#18. I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.
Phillip Lim
#19. If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. I'm far too stupid to get into Eton.
Sebastian Horsley
#20. When people accuse me of being really posh, I think, 'Hang on a minute - no, I'm not!'
Rob James-Collier
#21. I've enjoyed many camping holidays with my sister and her children, but we're pretty posh campers.
Erin O'Connor
#23. I'm not actually posh; I'm really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in Putney, which is pretty rough.
Jack Whitehall
#24. Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.
Emma Thompson
#25. There's a time and a place for being normal. For most people, normal is their default setting. But for some, like you and me, normal is something we have to bring out, like putting on a suit for a posh dinner.
Alice Oseman
#26. I went to a very posh school, I had a very privileged upbringing with parents who were incredibly loving and brilliant. I've never tried to hide that; I'm not going to change my accent or talk in a different way.
David Cameron
#27. It's one of my biggest internal struggles - the whole schooling system in London and the fact that my kids are going to a posh school. It freaks me out.
Stella McCartney
#28. I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!
Anita Pallenberg
#29. I don't live a very posh life. There are no drivers waiting or people doing everything for me. I pretty much live like a normal person ... It's not good to have a life without responsibilities, you know ?.
Liv Tyler
#30. It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.
Sally Phillips
#31. I was obsessed with the Spice Girls! I always wanted to be Sporty. Or Posh, but I wasn't pretty enough.
Jessie J.
#32. Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes because the foxes, they attack chickens. And posh people have an alliance with chickens just like in the First World War.
Eddie Izzard
#33. It was a competition in agony. Like rich women in posh restaurants ordering ever-smaller salads.
Zadie Smith
#34. We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.
Penelope Keith
#35. Mumbai is different! It's busy, it's dusty, it's posh, it's different from everything I've ever known. You can barely see the sky, hidden behind the tall buildings, the moon seems so detached, the trees look indifferent and distant.
Debalina Haldar
#36. Simple routine have a greater impact. It is not just to cut costs that we avoid luxury hotels. We do not need fancy cars, posh titles, tailor made uniforms or other status symbols.
Ingvar Kamprad
#37. I went to Glenalmond and got the piss taken out of me for my Glasgow accent. Then I spent five years at this very posh school, came out sounding like Prince Charles, which you have to do in order to survive, and then I got called Lord Fauntleroy for the first six months at art school.
Robbie Coltraine
#38. I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
Damian Lewis
#39. I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
Sam Claflin
#40. I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.
Jessie J.
#42. I'm a terrible sort of non-fussy eater, really. I don't like posh food very much, and the more ingredients something's got in it, the less I tend to like it.
Jo Brand
#43. I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
Celine Dion
#44. I love dressing up. As kids, my friends and I would dress up as the Spice Girls - Posh Spice was my favourite because I had short brown hair like her.
Eliza Doolittle
#45. It's difficult to relax on tournaments, even in posh hotels, because you don't know how long you will be there - whether you'll lose a match on the first day and leave or whether you'll stay for longer.
Andy Murray
#46. Jack wasn't my type at all. I thought he was too young and too posh, and I told him that. Plus, I couldn't deal with his dodgy bowl-cut. But he wore me down.
Michelle Gomez
#47. My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.
Sally Phillips
#48. I couldn't care less about walking down the red carpet in a pair of heels and a posh frock. I'd rather be in my pyjamas at home.
Sophia Myles
#49. Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
Damien Hirst
#50. Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.
Rory Kinnear
#51. While the ghettos may have their share of violence and crime, the posh suburbs are home to more subtle demonic forces
numbness, complacency and comfort. These are the powers that can eat away at our souls.
Shane Claiborne
#52. Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
Zadie Smith
#54. I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.
Douglas Booth
#55. We're gonna do like Posh and Becks and call it after the place it was conceived."
"Where's that?" I asked.
"King of Prussia.
Henry G. Radcliff
#56. I try to appreciate the simple things. I've just been camping with my son and I enjoyed that just as much if not more than a holiday in a posh hotel. I like making a cup of tea and bacon sarnie in the morning.
Bill Bailey
#57. The last thing you want to do is turn into a nerd like your father, nose always buried in a book, living like a tramp just to get one of those useless PhD thingies. And look where his posh Cambridge education got him - a flipping poet, for chrissakes!
Tabitha Suzuma
#58. I don't like posh hotels. I like small, eclectic hotels, and luxury for me would mean really good company with good food in a really funky, beautiful house in the middle of a field where someone came and serviced the place for us.
Amanda Donohoe
#59. Our kids haven't any airs about them. I don't like posh kids who don't like dirty dolls or expect a chauffeur every time they go out.
Linda McCartney
#60. I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.
Stephen Mangan
#61. At the other end of the spectrum, George Gideon Oliver King Rameses Osborne, the fourteen-year-old novelty Chancellor and future baronet of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon - a man so posh he probably weeps champagne.
Charlie Brooker
#62. You know who really gives kids a bad name? Posh and Becks.
Stewart Francis
#63. Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.
Mona Simpson
#64. Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#65. I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.
Rebel Wilson
#66. Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.
Tom Hooper
#67. I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and the hero hands the waiter $3. But the best part is when he says, "Keep the change."
Robert Orben
#68. When I was put up in posh hotels, I thought it was wonderful.
Cilla Black
#69. I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.
Laura Wade
#70. I have friends who are in the posh category and some who are in the not-at-all-posh category, and some who you would find it very hard to get any sort of handle on. But I am lucky to have any friends, of course.
Jools Holland
#71. What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.
Kailash Kher
#72. Stockholm is very, like, posh and uptight, and everything should be so luxurious and refurbished.
Karin Dreijer Andersson
#73. I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.
Danny Dyer
#74. Classically posh girls like Victoria Hervey are now trying to be Hollywood girls. Hollywood girls are trying to be posh girls. Everything is all mixed up, turned on its head.
Trinny Woodall
#75. I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.
Richard E. Grant
#76. I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
Jack Whitehall
#77. I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.
Michelle Dockery
#78. 'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.
Laura Wade
#79. We're not trying for perfect - we're aiming for posh shabby chic.
Rachael Lucas
#80. Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money.
Kate Reardon
#81. 'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is.
Phyllis Logan
#82. I was always told at school I was posh, then I came to London, and here I'm told I have a country accent.
Jessica Raine
#83. No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.
Kate Reardon
#85. I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
Laura Wade
#86. I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.
Matthew Goode
#87. I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so I feel that there is quite a lot distance there and have played a little bit far away from myself.
James McAvoy
#88. We'll go to the most posh gynecologist in New York. One who gets Harper's Bazaar for the reception room. How does that sound?
Philip Roth
#89. There are lots of actors who are posh and stick with that, and there are lots of actors who are cockney, and that's what they do. That's fine, but I don't think that could be said about me.
Keeley Hawes
#90. When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from.
Ben Chaplin
#91. Color my life with the chaos of trouble,
'cause anythings better than posh isolation.
I missed the bus, you were laid on your back
with the boy from the Arab strap,
the boy with the Arab strap
Stuart Murdoch
#92. In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#93. People in L.A. think I'm so posh. They think I live in 'Downton Abbey.'
Annabelle Wallis
#94. Philosophy is listening to warbling posh boys, it is being more bored than you have ever been in your life, more bored than you thought it possible to be.
Zadie Smith
#96. I can't wait until I'm able to afford really posh bags.
Alexandra Roach
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