Wealth Distinction Quotes

There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

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.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with success, be entitled to give those flattering distinctions by which mankind are so universally captivated? Such are the specious, but false arguments for a proposition which always will find numerous advocates, in a nation where men are every day starting up from obscurity to wealth. To refute them is needless. The general sense of mankind cries out, with irresistible force, "Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme.