Robert James Waller Quotes

Money doesn't buy class.

My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

You can't buy class.

To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.

Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

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.

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

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.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.

You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

People who actually have money don't want to talk about it. They want to talk about everything else.

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

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.

Everyone knows I married a prince, and then I married a billionaire.

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