William Goldman Quotes

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

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.

The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

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.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

Living in Paris was a crash course in chic.

You can't buy class.

I can do posh.

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.

The finer things I feel in me, the golden dance life could be.

But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky.

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

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.

For we have come by different ways to this place... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine clothes and the way your mouth moves when you speak with waiters in good restaurants. You have come the way of castles and cathedrals, of elegance and empire.

Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

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.

Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?

The Dior heritage is so broad. It has a strong presence in the work. So, when people have to define it quickly, it's, like, the Bar jacket and the movement and the luxury and the Belle Époque and so much more.

He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?

Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.