High Society Quotes

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.

They're smart in Orange County. Smart and rich - just how I like 'em.

I was at Plaza Athénée, where a jacket and tie was required. Andy Warhol came with his turtleneck, because he was always wearing a turtleneck, with a tie over it, and we gave him a jacket - so he had a jacket and tie over the turtleneck. It was pretty cool.

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

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

I was educated in a private school in England amongst people who had been trained for sort of banking or the Army or business. As I came towards the end of my education, I thought I must find something or I'll never meet any of these people again.

For dramas, I love 'Downton Abbey.' I'm a sucker for the BBC.

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.

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.

Golf is an arrogant, elitist game that takes up entirely too much space in this country.

I've certainly been to Hollywood parties, and I have friends that are ridiculous - wonderful people - but they're high rollers with tons of money.

To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.

'Downton Abbey'. I love all things olden-days, and I'm very interested in somebody brushing my hair out at the end of the night.

My mother, Nancy Dickerson, was a reporter for CBS and NBC and the first female star of television news; my father, Wyatt Dickerson, was a successful businessman. Their parties, from the '60s to the '80s, attracted cabinet officials, movie stars, and presidents.

I became one of the stately homos of England.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.

But it's not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco.

Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.