Posh Quotes - Page 3

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

  Dominic West

  Drama, America, People

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

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• 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

  People, Age, Actors

  "FUTURES: ‘Wuthering Heights’ Breakout Kaya Scodelario On Working For Andrea Arnold and Breaking Boundaries With ‘Skins’". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. October 5, 2012.

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• My family isn't posh; they're musicians.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Musician, My Family

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• You just don't expect posh girls to grab your tits, call your trousers "too clitty" and use words like "pussy pelmet" but they do. You are so shocked by what they are saying that by the time you have recovered and thought of something to say they have whipped you out of your jeans and eased you into a Lycra cat suit.

  Susannah Constantine

  Girl, Cat, Jeans

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• 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

  Kings, Men, Years

  Charlie Brooker (2012). “I Can Make You Hate”, p.212, Faber & Faber

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• The most abiding memory of visiting Lucian Freud's studio were his eyes, with the gimlet gaze of a Hooded Falcon. But he made for very relaxing company, quick to be amused at the world and his own peccadilloes. He enjoyed the seedy squalor of his rooms in a posh house in the most desirable part of Holland Park, and living up to his persona as an oddball bohemian.

  Charles Saatchi

  Memories, Eye, House

  Charles Saatchi (2012). “Babble”, p.152

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• 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

  Dirty, Kids, Air

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• Stockholm is very, like, posh and uptight, and everything should be so luxurious and refurbished.

  Karin Dreijer Andersson

  Uptight, Should, Stockholm

  "Fever Ray". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. March 30, 2009.

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