Top 75 Posh Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Working class people vote Tory because they think it makes them look a bit posh.

There are plenty of reasons for disliking people, but this tribal aversion to anyone with a posh voice is very boring.

I’ve enjoyed many camping holidays with my sister and her children, but we’re pretty posh campers.

Nobody knows it, but I would be considered posh in Ireland.

People assume I’m posh because I’m one of the acting dames. I grew up in Tottenham and didn’t used to speak like I do now.

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.

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

My brother and I have both dated a wide range of girls and not all of them have been posh.

If I go to posh parties, I hover by the kitchen so I can get as many nice canapes as possible.

While Labour Party orators readily remember the 1980s for Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s free-booting variety of entrepreneurial meritocracy, what gets forgotten is that Thatcher also gave the heave-ho to the old establishment’s notion of merit – good breeding, a posh school, and so on.

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.

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.

I have been trapped in some posh toilets, including those in Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, and at Victor Spinetti’s memorial at St. Paul’s Covent Garden, I got locked in the loo.

My first secondary school was in East Finchley, and I was one of only five white people in the year. I was really skinny and flat-chested with frizzy hair. I don’t consider myself posh, but my mum brought me up to speak properly, and they picked up on that, as all kids do.

It’s got to be speciality coffee or nothing. I love posh coffee but I have lattes with sugar, so I’m not a purist at all, but it has to be specific or it’s just not worth it to me.

I don’t think it’s the case that ‘posh actors’ get more work than others.

At school, when everyone would sell sweets and chocolate, I’d always take it that step further. I’d hustle as hard as I could to get the new Air Forces, to go and chill with the posh kids and the white girls who were around my area.

The tradition has always been that in Roman films, the Romans are always British, and it’s usually posh British: Laurence Olivier and his ilk. My take on all this was that it’s a metaphor for empire and the end of empire.

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!

My later jobs as a waitress felt like a posh paradise after my first one at Boston Market.

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.

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.

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.

I get told I have a ‘period’ face quite often. Maybe it’s the pale skin but I get a lot of pre-Forties posh roles.

I’ve been misconstrued because I speak in a certain way. I find it obnoxious how it defines you, somehow limits your ability to understand the human condition. You can’t be allowed near emotions; you play these curling-lipped, haughty characters. This awful label – ‘the posh Toby Stephens’ – I’m not posh!

Basically the real decision making in the Labour party is old white men, assisted by young, posh men.

It was hugely helpful to me, being South African. I have never felt uncomfortable in posh society because I don’t see what it is that I’m meant to be bowing the knee about.

I’m not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn’t born to the purple.

People in L.A. think I’m so posh. They think I live in ‘Downton Abbey.’

If I keep doing films like ‘The Riot Club’ they’re going to think I’m a posh git.

‘Downton Abbey’ about upper-class posh people: of course it is.

I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.

I think I have got quite a posh Scottish accent. It’s funny because I grew up in Oxgangs and Fife.

Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.

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.

When I was put up in posh hotels, I thought it was wonderful.

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

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

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.

I do speak well as I went to a posh school. But I come from no real breeding.

I’ve never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.

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.

Philip’s story is the most interesting in the royal family – his background is the opposite of what you’d think. Everyone has this idea that Philip is this bumbling, deliberately posh sort of man who says the wrong thing.

I don’t think I met anyone posh until I went to London.

We don’t have ‘posh’ in Canada. It’s just not a thing that exists.

I had to go to Asda, it’s the best supermarket if you’re poor as they have a good basic range, Sainsbury’s is for rich, posh people.

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.

I certainly never saw myself as posh.

I actually spoke to one of the heads of a studio, and he said I confuse middle America. Basically, when they see a black person, they see athlete, they see rapper, or they see criminal or something like that. And then when they hear a British accent, they hear posh, so they hear lawyer or doctor.

At Trinity College there was a coterie of the poshest of the posh, people you didn’t ever see, they were so posh. They went to each other’s rooms and, at weekends, each other’s estates. I preferred to be with the weirdo bunch of raggle-taggle thesps.

Posh was my favorite Spice Girl but she didn’t have that many lines to sing.

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.

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.’

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.

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.

We have a Mercedes Viano, which is a sort of posh people carrier. I told my wife I bought it for the kids, but the real reason is that I can put my dirt bikes and a mattress in the back, then get out of London for the weekend.

Once I got to college, it seemed that the Hamptons were a little bit too posh for me and didn’t represent the kind of values I was embracing in my late teens. So, I didn’t go out there, except to visit my parents, for a long time. And then, after 9/11, I discovered it was a nice, mellow place to hang out.