Cara Delevingne Quotes

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.

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

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.

I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.

I'm not from aristocracy, or anything like that.

I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.

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

...a blue blood, a snob

I was not interested in luxuries because I had an elegant life as a child. My family, very aristocratic, one of the richest in Colombia, educated me like a princess, in the English style.

He's so snobbish he has an unlisted zip-code.

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

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

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

I was not to the manor born.

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

'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.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

The House of Peers, throughout the war Did nothing in particular And did it very well.

Senators will associate only with men of their own class; and thus become strangers to the condition of the common people.

I'm not an aristocrat. I have no idea what that is.

Essentially, Louis XIV created exclusivity. If we look at how we live our lives today, many of us are members of clubs or gyms. We search out exclusivity. He created the world of fashion at Versailles.

The super-rich watch each other like envious owls, to see who's got a slightly better loafer, a pullover made from some even more absurdly endangered fur. They will go to any lengths to find the best tailors.

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