Quotes About Being Posh

#1. 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

#2. Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#3. 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

#4. I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.

Fanny Burney

#5. The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#6. Winning means so much, and not winning always mentally frustrates and then pushes me physically to be a BEAST all summer.I LOVE THIS GAME.

Jon-Robert Holden

#7. I just don't like it when people get credited for their voice work and it's really shitty. It's really thin, there's nothing to it, there's no meat behind it. It's, like, "Oh, it's a celebrity."

John DiMaggio

#8. I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.

Jack Whitehall

#9. When people accuse me of being really posh, I think, 'Hang on a minute - no, I'm not!'

Rob James-Collier

#10. I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.

Dominic West

#11. No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.

Glenn Beck

#12. When they brag about god, I just hear jingling gold coins.

Toba Beta

#13. There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

Kate Reardon

#14. Beware of creating tedium!

Anthony Trollope

#15. You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

#16. I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

Randy Harrison

#17. Selfless action is a source of strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. 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

#19. It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

Sally Phillips