Colin Jost Quotes

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.

The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.

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

When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in places that are hard to find on a map, but that they also use the names of seasons as verbs. When they asked me, 'Where did you summer and winter growing up?' I would usually say, 'As a child? The same place I springed and autumned.'

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.

I used to play snooker in millionaires' mansions with marble floors and eat at the best places, but that's all over now.

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

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.

Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon.

I live a bourgeois life.

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.

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

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

I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

People in L.A. think I'm so posh. They think I live in 'Downton Abbey.'

I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

Money doesn't buy class.

...a blue blood, a snob

[Characterizing Republicans:] ... the Grey Poupon crowd, the Gucci-shoe wearing, Mercedes-driving, polo-playing, jacuzzi-soaking, Perrier-drinking, Aspen-skiing, ritzy rich.

I grew up in the upper class, for sure. My family was kind of about that whole parties-and-horse racing thing. I can understand it's fun for some. I never enjoyed it.

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.