Michelle Dockery Quotes

I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.

I was not to the manor born.

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

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

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

...a blue blood, a snob

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

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.

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

My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

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

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.

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

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

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

The Pedigree of Honey Does not concern the Bee- A Clover, any time, to him, Is Aristocracy-

What is the use of your pedigrees?

Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.

Somewhere among every man's ancestors is a prince or a lord, a priest or a saint, and don't forget it. Wake up! Inherit the wealth of your ancestors!.. Stop living like a mouse, live like the rich people do.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Do the adherents of this mad theory [Evolution] realize the disgrace they are bringing on the most respectable families! There is not an aristocracy in Europe or America that can stand it one moment. For aristocracy is based on the greatness of forefathers…. With a monkey in the background, how can even a Hapsburg or a Guelf put on airs of superiority? How must he hide his face in shame to think, that, as his line lengthens into an obscure antiquity, the foreheads of his house slope, and their jaws project; that he has literally been all his life aping aristocracy, instead of being the real thing; and that, when he has reached his true beginning, his only consolation must be found in the fact that his great skulking, hulking, gibbering baboon of an ancestor rejoices, like himself, in the possession of "the third lobe," "the posterior cornu of the lateral ventricle," and "the hippocampus minor.

I grew up in the upper class, for sure. My family was kind of about that whole parties-and-horse racing thing. I can understand it's fun for some. I never enjoyed it.

I don't go hunting with kings and princes.

What is high birth to him to whom high birth has never been the theme of his contemplation? What is a throne to him who has never dreamed of a throne?