Rachel Johnson Quotes

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

No social class, intellectual category or art form is immune to the snob virus.

The super-rich watch each other like envious owls, to see who's got a slightly better loafer, a pullover made from some even more absurdly endangered fur. They will go to any lengths to find the best tailors.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

The Clique: The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

I don't keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses.

People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.

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.

Everyone hates the best clubs, it is as simple as that.

I can tell you that many soloists probably wish they could sit.

I love women but am aware we're dangerous and deeply competitive, although I gave up being competitive long ago.

It's the Met Gala - everyone is huge. It feels very hierarchical, and I get really nervous in hierarchical spaces because I feel like everyone deserves to feel just as special as everyone else, but that's just not the way it is in this business.

Fashion Week is a great opportunity to make unimportant people feel like they own the world.

Urijah's about Urijah. He's about number one. He's always been that way. No matter what it is he needs to be doing something better than you, he needs to be one-upping you. He's a one-upper.

I've seen material competitiveness destroy relationships in dressing rooms. People end up worrying about what someone else is earning and whether they're missing out.

My plan is to show everyone that Tony Harrison is not on my level.

I didn't want to be good for a girl: I wanted to be as good, if not better than, all the guys.

Now my haters are very high class people, so I feel like I've moved up.

'Toast' is based on a bunch of actors but especially one guy. I worked with him on a film and realise that if I mentioned any actor who was around his age but more successful, it would drive him insane. So from sheer devilment, I'd do it on purpose.

Honours seem to be the nature of British life. It's horrible. Maybe I'm mad, but the older I get, the less I want to have honours loaded on me.

New York is about success. Boston is about resentment.

Success is somebody else's failure.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.