Michael McIntyre Quotes

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

The Trudie Styler that is spoken of is extremely privileged in life and feels that privilege.

Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

I was educated in a private school in England amongst people who had been trained for sort of banking or the Army or business. As I came towards the end of my education, I thought I must find something or I'll never meet any of these people again.

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.

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

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.

When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in places that are hard to find on a map, but that they also use the names of seasons as verbs. When they asked me, 'Where did you summer and winter growing up?' I would usually say, 'As a child? The same place I springed and autumned.'

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

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

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

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

I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!

I went to a very posh school, I had a very privileged upbringing with parents who were incredibly loving and brilliant. I've never tried to hide that; I'm not going to change my accent or talk in a different way.

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

I had gone to a Catholic prep school where everyone was rich and having kids by the time they were 30.

I am from Michigan; I am from Grosse Pointe. I was upper class growing up there.

I grew up in a wealthy upper-class household in Jamaica, which was run along militaristic lines by my mother, Gloria.

Given this voice, I know it does sound like I've come from money. But my dad was Canadian and my mum Hungarian, so it's not like I have some high-society, upper-class English background.

I don't know that I ever bought into the "American dream." I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the '50s and it was a quiet time in America, at least on the surface and I grew up in a kind of feathery bed of privilege.

As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.

Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.