Charlotte Curtis Quotes

It is not so much that I am a blue-blooded oligarch: I just don't feel like an oligarch.

It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.

The Social Register is a nice address book for some people, but that's about it.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.

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.

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

In Singapore, there may be 50 old-money families, but you wouldn't know them to look at them.

I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.

I've never felt entirely comfortable in high society. I'm more comfortable talking to the bar staff than the super-rich. I don't really get what makes them tick.

'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is.

Before 'Fringe' I was in 'Dirty Sexy Money' playing Jeremy Darling who was this bratty New York socialite.

I love Edith Wharton. And I love old New York. Anything to do with New York.

My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.

I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.

I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.

I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the really old-money families, the concept of old money.

People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.

George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.