Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

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

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

Money doesn't buy class.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

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

You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.

You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

The American Dream is really money.

I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.

I realize I am very privileged. But there's a difference between being spoiled and privileged.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.

I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.