Sky Ferreira Quotes

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

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

I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.

Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

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.

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

It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

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

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

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

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

I was not to the manor born.

Only the elites despise earning money.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

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.

The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

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

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

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

This is an impressive crowd -- the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite; I call you my base.

The histories of mankind that we possess are histories only of the higher class.