Dana Perino Quotes

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

Money doesn't buy class.

I don't really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I'm buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it.

The affluent society makes no meaningful distinction between luxury and necessity.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human being become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of respectability at a commensurate speed.

Sometimes I think that the public's lack of criticism of the rich - and how they seek their pleasure - might derive from the fact that Americans still believe they will one day be joining their number.

I don't really shop a lot, just cause I'd rather not spend my money on clothes.

We're not all Kim Kardashian. We can't have $15,000 from head to toe every single day.

My kids are the offspring of people who are doing reasonably well and live in the centre of London and the chances are they're going to turn out ghastly anyway. Who's to say they shouldn't have a walk-in wardrobe and possibly a stylist from the age of four?

I am not really into buying a lot of expensive things.

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.

The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important.

I don't want to be a millionaire; just live like one.

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

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.

With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.