Howell T. Heflin Quotes

Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon.

I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.

I'm like a menu at an expensive restaurant; you can look at me, but you can't afford me.

Probably the biggest thing is the private planes. Wow, that thing's amazing. Got all the food on there, a bunch of drinks. I don't know, It's just amazing, never seen nothing like it. Tables, tables on planes, that's amazing. That was probably the biggest 'whoa' for me, like, 'I made it'. This big private jet, you're like, 'Whoa.'

I built the most exclusive and decadent high-profile club for powerful men.

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

I live a bourgeois life.

So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me.

There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

My music is a luxury.

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

Let's just say I have expensive taste.

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

This is an impressive crowd -- the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite; I call you my base.

My dad was fairly well-off, so I was raised in a very comfortable environment: the very nice suburbs of Paris. It was a very idyllic life. I also spent nearly all my summers in Britain, and Christmas, too, because my grandparents lived there.

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.

My family is very discreet. White-shoe, you know?

Luxury cannot afford to intimidate.

My life is extravagant.

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

Unfortunately, I didn't get to know Paolo Montero that well. He was someone else who lived like a king at night.

He's so snobbish he has an unlisted zip-code.

The very rich only admire themselves

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

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.