Fran Lebowitz Quotes

When I was growing up, we were in a high income bracket, one of the highest. I was one of the first in high school to get a car. And I didn't have to wait for it to be a graduation present, either. We've probably got one of the nicest houses in Sacramento.

Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

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

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

More people smile at me now I'm richer.

I photograph wealth.

My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Affluence means influence.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

I do like nice things; we do live in a great house, but I don't choose my friends by how much money they have or what labels they're wearing.

I don't have a Rolls. I don't have a jet. That's not me.

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

The more money the louder it talks.

Money doesn't buy class.

I have a nice house, nice cars, nice watches, nice things. I've got money in the bank. I'm not in need of a few quid - as it stands. It's all irrelevant to me.

You find you have a lot of friends when you are rich and idle.

I still have my feet on the ground; it's just that I wear expensive shoes.

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

I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

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

My watch say I made it, my chains say I'm rich. Diamonds in my mouth got me talking cash s**t.

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

Things we think of as tremendous advantages can get in the way of being happy, and wealth is one of those things where people can become isolated within this luxury and not connect.