Posh Quotes

• 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

  Country, Weekend, Cities

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• I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

  Martin Freeman

  Common

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Responsibility, People, Waiting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Celine Dion

  Birthday, One Day, Sometimes

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

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Class, Looks, Actors

  "Benedict Cumberbatch: I’m Typecast For Being Rich". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2011.

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• 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

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself up out of the dark abyss of pish and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Humor, Dark

  "On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1956.

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• I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

  Damian Lewis

  Thinking, Interesting, Actors

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• 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

  Dog, Tvs, Affair

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• 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

  Ingredients, Terrible, Fussy

  "Lunch with Mariella: Jo Brand" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2010.

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• 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

  Looks, Spices, Ships

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• 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

  Restaurants

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.

  Danny Dyer

  Thinking, Class, Seems

  "Question Time". Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2009.

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• 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

  School, Appreciate, Sound

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• You know who really gives kids a bad name? Posh and Becks.

  Stewart Francis

  Kids, Names, Giving

  "Edinburgh fringe's 10 funniest jokes revealed" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.

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• 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

  Long, Relax, Firsts

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• 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

  Cutting, Simple, Luxury

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• I certainly never saw myself as posh.

  Laura Carmichael

  Saws

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Home, Care, Red

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Real, Care, Stereotype

  "Question time: Sophie Ellis-Bextor". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2009.

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• 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

  Past, Class, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Mean, Luxury

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• 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

  Class, Rose, Proud

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• My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

  Sally Phillips

  Hard Work, Parent, Yorkshire

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• 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

  Art, Taken, School

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