Laura Wade Quotes

I didn't know we'd been tagged as posh. I went to a state school in London, so maybe people think I have a posh voice and that's where it comes from?

If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. I'm far too stupid to get into Eton.

Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am.

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

Language does not make one an elite.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

You don't buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others.

I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.

I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite.

Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

When people accuse me of being really posh, I think, 'Hang on a minute - no, I'm not!'

...a blue blood, a snob

If you're white working class, it's very easy to caricature the elites, and if you're elite, it's very easy to caricature the white working class.

The way I see it, the expensive people who get hired when you have money are the fancy people who tell you what you can't do.

I've been misconstrued because I speak in a certain way. I find it obnoxious how it defines you, somehow limits your ability to understand the human condition. You can't be allowed near emotions; you play these curling-lipped, haughty characters. This awful label - 'the posh Toby Stephens' - I'm not posh!

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.

Davos is an extravagant bun-fight of the vanities, where the 'haves' gather to strike deals with the 'have-mores.'

First, one scrambles for wealth. Then, one luxuriates in mocking the effeteness that comes with it.

Discounting the ineffably repetitive homophobic barbs that I receive most days, Twitter trolls' most common gripe against me appears to be that I am 'posh.' Contrary to their unshakeable view, I was not born into the upstairs world.

Rich clubs, where money doesn't matter... such clubs don't interest me.

People in Hollywood can condescend to the way a lot of other people are living.