Beauty Quote by Kate Reardon

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

— Phyllis Logan

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

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“Likewise, while the men and women were no more naturally attractive than their English counterparts, they dressed with an assurance and attention to detail…

— Kathleen Tessaro

We know that the British public are obsessed with class.

— Lady Colin Campbell

Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country…

— Ed Miliband

'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…

— Laura Wade

Because I sometimes shopped in Waitrose, I thought I was actually quite posh. I've realised that I'm basically a scullery maid. Even the middle-class…

— Jess Phillips

“The rout, that dreary review of fashionable fineries, that parade of well-dressed self-infatuations, is one of those English inventions currently mechanifying the other nations.…

— Honoré de Balzac

Class is a big issue here. And some people get picked on more than others. I think we probably do. I mean, it doesn't…

— Winston Marshall

“None of this, of course, was ever stated: the genteel social Darwinism of the English middle classes always remained implicit.”

— Julian Barnes

England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens…

— Stephen Daldry

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire…

— John Berger