Art Buchwald Quotes

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.

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

The Social Register is a nice address book for some people, but that's about it.

I'll go to an event wearing some designer gown and tens of thousands of dollars in jewels that were lent to me for the night, and I'll walk around and meet people who I always thought were such a big deal.

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

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

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

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

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

Money doesn't buy class.

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

The general consumption of any commodity by the vulgar lessens, on the contrary, in many minds, the pleasure it would otherwise give. It brings down the individual, in this particular, to a level with the lowest

Essentially, Louis XIV created exclusivity. If we look at how we live our lives today, many of us are members of clubs or gyms. We search out exclusivity. He created the world of fashion at Versailles.

The locker rooms that Donald Trump is in are not at the cut-rate gym with the broken treadmills - they are at his swish golf clubs. They are places of stature.

Polo is a quintessentially English sport. It stands for quality and sophistication and is recognised all over the world as such.

A Tennessee Squire is an elite group of people.

Once fraternities became tied to power and leadership, the powerful and would-be-leaders wanted to join.

I never came out to the Hamptons when I was younger - it was always a fancy and exotic place.

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

The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity.

I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

This is college?' Schyler asked. 'or Downton Abbey?

There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. That's just not how the world works.