Meyer Lansky 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.

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.

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

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

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

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

The Romanoffs are like the other side of 'The Great Gatsby.' 'Gatsby' is about the people who don't have the history but who want it. And 'The Romanoffs' is about the people who have it and don't know what to do with it.

In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

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

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

I'm not from aristocracy, or anything like that.

All heiresses are beautiful.

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

There are only two classes - first class and no class.

There is no distinction of persons among them, and deference is shown to merit rather than to noble blood.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

...a blue blood, a snob

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