Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

I'm fortunate enough that my dad was well-off, my family was well-off, so we're able to go to private schools and stuff like that.

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

There was a commonality in a lot of the private school experiences that I had of children whose lives were not their own. They thought they were their own, but they were essentially gifted this life by their parents. So they were spending money; they were going on trips - I guess, in a way, it is their life, but they didn't earn it.

We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can be explained the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year?

I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.

If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.

I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.

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

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

I was not to the manor born.

There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents;... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy.

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

… members of the lucky sperm club

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in Beverly Hills, but I was born with a great deal of self-worth.

We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.

You're a socialite because you're born into it. That's not what I want.

It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.

You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

Here's a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now?

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.