Sue Townsend Quotes

I would always make the mansion available, or send a plane or a car to pick them [former governors] up.

The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

Even though I am fortunate to have certain luxuries, sometimes, I am even amazed by what people with money have and do. I want to remind people that just because you might be rich and famous, it doesn't mean you have to take yourself too seriously.

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

I know that I am not entitled to anything, and when somebody thinks they are, that's a step in the wrong direction.

The good thing about getting wealthy is we don't need to understand a lot of things!

Flip-flops are a privilege, not a right.

I've been able to make a lot of money and live a lifestyle that I never dreamed of. And I've been able to provide for my family.

My parents have ensured that we never develop starry airs.

What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece.

I'm genuinely, near and dear, truly rich.

I always had amazing food around the dinner table, a beautiful house to live in, cool clothes to wear to school, and help with my homework. I am so lucky.

I like nice things. I've always had nice things.

I honestly don't need much money. People love to buy me drinks. Hostesses love to feed me. Famous artists lavish me with expensive artworks, and heiresses do the same with jewels that I promptly lose.

For a while I didn't have a car . . . I had a helicopter . . . no place to park it, so I just tied it to a lamp post and left it running. [slow glance upward]