Christine McVie Quotes

Everything is always grungy in England, no? It's like a little shibboleth of the upper class, wearing something out of your grandfather's trunk.

In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback.

All the wealthiest people in the U.S. seem compelled to brag about how humble they are.

In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers. People who played bowls wore blazers.

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical; it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.

I think poshness is very funny! But I think it's also delightful. There's something wonderful and very innocent about it, particularly with the Edwardians.

Buying my new house in the country wasn't about showing off or being something I'm not, like Madonna when she turned into the country lass with her tweeds on.

I can do posh.

People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.

I became one of the stately homos of England.

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.

I like being outdoors a lot, and I come from a small village that's fairly remote.

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

My personal style is preppy with an edge.

When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.

Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them in 'The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook,' published in 1982, was of an upper-middle-class world, conservative and fairly homogeneous, united by old attitudes and institutions.