Dina Merrill Quotes

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

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

I came from an affluent family, am well-known and well-read.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.

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.

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.

I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

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.

There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

Language does not make one an elite.

Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.

In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.

In Europe, you would almost never have people with large amounts of income being happy with a two-volume vehicle like a hatchback or a minivan. They want to structurally show their societal position, which is why three volumes are so popular. They show 'I'm part of that hierarchy.'

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.

Money doesn't buy class.

Class is more important than a game.

Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver - they were civic leaders, and he raced horses in the Kentucky Derby - and my mother grew up a debutante. And when she and my dad were married, there were about a thousand guests at that reception.

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.