Aristotle Onassis Quotes

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 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.

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

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

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

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

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.

Money doesn't buy class.

You can't buy class.

Affluence = abundant flow.

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.

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

I'm livin' high on the hog, and let me tell you, hogs make a terrible foundation.

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

My glass is not only half-full, it holds five-hundred-dollar-a-bottle Dom Perignon champagne.

I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.

People say I'm a gold digger, but do you see me wearing gold? No. I'm wearing diamonds.

The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. All of her clothes came from Paris (this was after Paris) and she had superb taste. (This was after taste too, but only just. And since it was such a new thing, and since the Countess was the only lady in all Florin to posses it, is it any wonder she was the leading hostess in the land?)

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.

Oh no we don't play with silly girls All I know is the material girls

What I do see in New York and I am amazed is how many rich women will complain about the cost of something and get things for free.I would never want to be like them, but I can see why they save money.

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.